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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

  • -- Russell Baker 拉塞尔·贝克

一个受过教育的人是这样的人:他知道，事实往往是，信息至多是不完整的，而且往往是错误的、误导人的、虚构的、虚假的——完全是错误的。

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I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

我希望看到更多的决定在离病人、乘客和学生更近的地方做出。更大的权力属于当地和地区选举出来的政治家，他们最了解自己所在地区的需要。在卫生和教育领域的各级专门工作人员也有更多的发言权。

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I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.

我想让“我肉中的肉”成为我与社区的纽带，我想说我的人民在想什么，吸收他们所有的痛苦。我明白了，当我把它全部吸收进去时，我可以让一个兄弟的痛苦被全世界所理解。

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Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

爱国主义在不同的时期，就像剃刀一样，有着截然不同的用途。剃刀本应用来清洁你的脸，但也可能用来割自己或无辜的人的喉咙。

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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

在每个人的生活中，总有那么一段时间，我们内心的火焰熄灭了。然后，它会因为与另一个人的相遇而燃烧起来。我们都应该感谢那些重新点燃内在精神的人。

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When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.

当他们从每个硬盘上下载完所有的信息后，他们把所有的电脑，所有的文学作品，装进一辆白色的大卡车里离开了。

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It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

这就像你看到的太多了，因为当它真的发生的时候，所有的东西都飞快地朝你飞来，你永远也感受不到冰的存在，以及每个人在那一刻的位置。

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Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

鲸鱼只有在浮出水面时才会被鱼叉叉住，海龟只有在伸出脖子时才会向前移动，但投资者无论如何都要面临风险。

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This almost never happens, but what is really relaxing is just being in this house all by myself, sitting quietly and watching TV. But I basically never get that chance.

这几乎从未发生过，但真正令人放松的是独自一人坐在这所房子里，静静地坐着看电视。但我基本上从来没有这样的机会。

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Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

为什么人们会做他们害怕的事情?也许恐惧包含着信息。如果你克服了恐惧，事情就会变得有趣起来。

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Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

用音乐来描述我是什么样的人是最好的。当我站在舞台上，放声歌唱时，我总是想起生活中最美好的事情。

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There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

我有很大一部分只是想把所有的漫画历史扔到篝火上。我有点想去未来。

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There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't . What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch Me".

有很多人会告诉你，你不能。你要做的就是转过身来说“看我”。

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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

我从被歧视中学会了同情。所有发生在我身上的不幸都教会了我同情。

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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

对死亡的恐惧是所有恐惧中最没有道理的，因为对一个死人来说，没有发生意外的危险。

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I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

我一直和吉布森在一起。我也有过公会和挡泥板，但最后总是回到吉布森。

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

第一眼看上去美极了;但是当它在房子里呆了三天的时候，谁会去看它呢?

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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

我们应该寻求与欧洲的合作，而不是把欧洲划分为虚构的新和虚构的旧。

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Sometimes, you gotta quit thinking so much. If it feels right, it probably is so just go with it.

有时候，你得停止想那么多。如果感觉对了，那就顺其自然吧。

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Whatever you may say will be both true and false. Words do not reach beyond the mind.

无论你说什么，都有真假之分。言语无法超越心灵。

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If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body.

如果你的存在没有任何区别，你只不过是一具尸体。

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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

虽然类比常常具有误导性，但它是我们所拥有的最不具误导性的东西。

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Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

电视节目在最坏的情况下做了太多，以至于它无法做到最好。

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Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

新闻总是一门残缺不全的艺术。你会得到一些碎片。

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As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

事实证明，看起来像科学的东西有时并不是。

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Once upon a time i fell in love with the wrong person.

从前，我爱错了人。

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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

我们把世界看错了，反说它欺骗了我们。

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Always give a little more than you promise.

永远给予比你承诺的多一点。

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Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

谁像你自己那样经常欺骗你?

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

工作常是快乐之父。

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Spring is very energising to me.

春天使我充满活力。

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A false report rides post.

虚报可以骗过。

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