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It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

不可忘记的是，我们所谓的信仰的理性基础，往往是为我们的本能辩护的极度非理性的尝试。

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The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.

希伯来圣经包含了许多条款，以确保没有人会挨饿。田间的四角，和遗落的禾捆，拾取遗落在拾取者手中的遗落物，并落在葡萄树上的小串葡萄，都要分给穷人。

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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

竞争使我离开了农场，并训练我寻找挑战和忍受挫折;再加上我的信仰，它现在支撑着我与阿尔茨海默氏症作斗争。

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I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

我一直不明白，为什么艺术家们总是屈尊于自己文化的陈词滥调，却如此渴望接受自己一无所知的文化的陈词滥调。

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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

在物理科学的每一个部门中，科学的数量，确切地说是数学的数量，是有限的。

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I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

我确实认为提高意识的尝试已经成功。人们现在非常关注性别问题。

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I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

我飞的经济。我经常坐头等舱，但我不跟团、保镖或助理一起旅行。

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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

科幻小说作家把人物置于一个有任意规则的世界里，然后计算出发生了什么。

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In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

在漫长的岁月里，他们必须成长;男人更像女人，她更像男人。

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You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

你在西西里岛的一个家庭长大，成为一名演员并不是一个很大的飞跃。

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I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

我不是老实人，也不是潘格罗斯博士，但我们知道信念能移山。

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Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

许多沟通的尝试都因为说得太多而付诸东流。

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Eaten bread is forgotten.

吃过的面包会被遗忘。

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