Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

在这个世界上,有一半的伤害是由于那些想要感到自己很重要的人造成的。他们不是有意要伤害别人。但他们对这种伤害并不感兴趣。

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I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

我没有朋友,也不打算交朋友。人们会在你背后捅你一刀,虐待你,在你背后议论我,偷你的东西。他们不是你真正的朋友。他们来这里只是因为你是名人或者他们想从你这里得到什么。

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

我不得不说,山达基教会给我的最重要的东西之一就是让我保持正直。我理解人们如何陷入不道德的境地,山达基教一直帮助我保持头脑清醒,活在当下。

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

我说,我的人民的神圣的圆环是许多圆环中的一个,它们围成一个圆圈,宽如白昼,宽如星光,在圆圈的中央长着一棵高大的开花树,为一位母亲和一位父亲的所有孩子提供庇护。

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

我一直告诉自己要冷静下来,对事情不要那么感兴趣,不要那么激动,但我仍然非常关心新闻自由、言论自由和公正。

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

其消失的第一个也是最重要的原因是一个毋庸置疑的事实:进化不是一门科学;这只是一种假设,一种推测。

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

我不想告诉那棵树或杂草它是什么。我想让它告诉我一些事情,并通过我来表达它的本质意义。

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

我把每首诗的草稿用不同颜色的文件夹保存起来。我根据当天对那个颜色的感觉来挑选文件夹。

Along with an understanding of the outer world, it is essential that we also come to know the inner world.

在了解外部世界的同时,我们也必须了解内部世界。

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

对任何人来说,像我一样全神贯注于任何事情都是一种可诅咒的罪恶。

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.

在我们这个快节奏的世界里,对很多人来说,绝望不是一瞬间的事;这是一种生活方式。

I have always wanted my colours to sing.

我一直想让我的颜色歌唱。

I'm free. I'm free to say what I feel.

我是免费的。我可以畅所欲言。