I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

  • -- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

我认为自治的潜力很大,但我们必须记住,我们生活在一个人们可能有自由意志,但没有创造环境的世界。

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Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

有些人的行为似乎是艺术,为大众观众是不好的艺术,我认为这是一个非常消极的事情。我知道我非常想写一本书,让尽可能多的读者都能读懂。

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.

在她受教育的过程中,她经历了通常由年轻人掌握的历史。现在,她成熟的理智至少给了她目前的研究带来了新奇的好处。

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

我们都不知道沉睡在人民精神中的所有潜力,也不知道当事件发生正确的相互作用时,人民能以何种方式给我们带来惊喜。

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

对任何事情都了如指掌,就是知道在任何情况下如何处理它。

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

如果任何有机体不能发挥它的潜力,它就会生病。

Circumstances do not matter only state of being matter matters.

环境并不重要,重要的是存在的状态。