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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

  • -- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

我们嘲笑那些为了得到果实而砍倒树木的野蛮人的无知;但同样的错误是由每一个人谁是过度渴望和不耐烦的追求快乐。

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All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

只要人们愿意思考，世界上所有的问题都可以很容易地解决。问题是，人们常常为了不思考而使用各种各样的方法，因为思考是一项如此艰难的工作。

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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

说没有人会吹嘘自己对文学的无知几乎已经成了陈词滥调，但吹嘘自己对科学的无知、自豪地宣称自己在数学方面的无能是可以被社会接受的。

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When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

当你年轻的时候，一切充满戏剧性的事情都是令人兴奋的，你开始相信那些天花乱坠的宣传，为了成为一名艺术家，你必须忍受痛苦。我已经从那所学校毕业了。

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If you stand for a reason be prepared to stand alone like a tree. And if you fall, fall as a seed that grows back to fight again... like a tree.

如果你站着是有原因的，那就准备好像一棵树一样独自站着。如果你跌倒了，就像一颗种子一样跌倒，然后又长出来继续战斗……像一个树。

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

永远无知的秘诀是:满足于你的观点，满足于你的知识。

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I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

我在经济上更成功了，但这只是意味着我现在在购物上犯的错误更大了。

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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

战争主要是一系列的错误。

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Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

假的和伊甸园树一样古老。

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