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Philip G. Hamerton
"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
你是否曾經觀察到：當一句睿智名言被引用了，我們注意它的時間遠多過於第一次在原文讀到它時。
Franklin P. Jones
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
準時的壞處是，根本沒有人在第一時間讚美你。
Frank Lloyd Wright
"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
電視是給眼睛吃的口香糖。
Michael Crichton
"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."
我非常肯定這世界有太多「必然現象」。
Thomas Jones
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
朋友來來去去，敵人不滅反增。
Rita Rudner
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
我愛婚姻。能發現一個自己想花下半輩子煩死他的特定人選，真棒！
Arthur C. Clarke
"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."
衡量某人誠實與否的最好方法，不是看他所得稅報表。要看他浴室體重計指針有沒有歸零。
Sir Winston Churchill
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
人常會被真理跘倒，但大部分的人會站起來、馬上走開，就好像根本沒事發生過。
John Maynard Keynes
"I do not know which makes a man more conservative: to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."
我不知道哪種情況會讓人比較保守：是對現在一無所知，還是對過去一無所知？
William S. Burroughs
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."
偏執狂就是對未來可能發生什麼略知一二的人。
Al Franken
"When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both."
當你碰上看起來互相衝突的忠告，兩個都別理。
David Friedman
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
訴諸暴力，對任何問題都是很糟糕的解決方法。它只適合給小孩子和強國使用。
George Carlin
"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."
誠實為第一選擇。但務必記得，根據消去法，顯然不誠實為第二選擇。
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