The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

  • -- Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert 奥伯伦·爱德华·威廉·莫利纽斯·赫伯特

政治家的职业生涯主要是使国家的一部分做它不想做的事,以取悦和满足国家的另一部分。

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The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.

大脑就像一台机器,不停地在问:我更喜欢什么?闭上眼睛,拒绝移动,观察你的思想在做什么。它所做的就是对现状感到不满。一个欲望产生了,你满足了那个欲望,另一个欲望在它的地方产生了。

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

诗歌不是一种职业,而是一种徒劳无益的游戏。没有一个诚实的诗人能对他所写的东西的永久价值有十足的把握:他可能白白浪费了时间,把生活搞得一团糟。

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

在这里,有一项最令人发指的指控,即这个国家背负着不必要的开支,其唯一目的就是阻止我们清偿债务和废除税收。

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

把图片和文字结合起来真的很有效,我开始意识到,在我的职业生涯中,除非我自己写文字,否则我的信息就会被稀释。

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

作为一场战争的作者,他释放了整个地狱的传染,打开了一根血脉,使一个国家流血至死。

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

人类发明语言是为了满足内心深处的抱怨。