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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

我们的发明往往是漂亮的玩具，分散我们的注意力从严肃的事情。它们只是改进的手段，以达到未改进的目的。

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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

如果一个人每天有一半的时间是为了爱他们而在树林里散步，那么他就有可能被认为是一个游手好闲的人。但如果他把自己的时间花在投机上，在她之前砍掉那些树木，让地球光秃秃的，他就被认为是一个勤奋进取的公民。

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As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

随着事态的发展，我们所缔造的和平，我们似乎正在缔造的和平，将是石油的和平，黄金的和平，航运的和平，简言之，和平。没有道德目的或人类利益。

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Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

以下是我所坚持的价值观:诚实、平等、善良、同情，以你希望的方式对待他人，并帮助那些需要帮助的人。对我来说，这些都是传统价值观。

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To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.

尊重一段关系的尊严也意味着接受它的结束。除了在我的脑海里，除了在我的梦里，她的余味还在那里徘徊。

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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

故事的目的是巩固人们或他们的领导人在他们现有的世界之旅中所取得的成就，或者想象他们所取得的成就。

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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

许多人对什么是真正的幸福有错误的认识。它不是通过自我满足，而是通过对有价值目标的忠诚来实现的。

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Doing things for someone else is what I love most about relationships, even more than having stuff done for me.

为别人做事是我最喜欢的人际关系，甚至超过为自己做事。

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I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

我不想成为家庭价值观的代言人，但这就是人们对我的看法。

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