I, Me, Myself

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。

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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。

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Frank Lloyd Wright

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes." 
電視是給眼睛吃的口香糖。

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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」。

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Thomas Jones

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."
朋友來來去去，敵人不滅反增。

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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！

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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。

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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。

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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？

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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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