You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down ... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  • -- Aaron Copland 亚伦·科普兰

你写作是因为你想以某种永久的形式总结你对活着的最基本的感觉,然后把它写下来……某种关于现在生活的感觉的永久声明,今天。

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

不公正、贫穷、奴役、无知——这些都可以通过改革或革命来解决。但是人不仅仅是靠与罪恶作斗争来生活的。他们生活在积极的目标下,个人的和集体的,各种各样的目标,很少是可以预测的,有时是不相容的。

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

当一个人对邪恶感到厌恶,当他感到平静,他就会从聆听好的教导中找到快乐;当一个人有了这些感觉并欣赏它们时,他就没有了恐惧。

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

劣等人唯一永恒的情感是恐惧——害怕未知的、复杂的、无法解释的东西。他最希望的是安全。

No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.

无论我们采取何种政策举措,我们都需要一个基于法律和健全科学的核燃料永久储存库。

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

一个人必须把自己的感情同自己的信仰和思想结合起来。这可能是在一个人的生活中实现和谐的唯一方法。

The live concert industry has become corporate-ized.

现场音乐会行业已经企业化。