Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. -- Swetchine
只有强者才懂得斗争；弱者甚至失败都不够资格，而是生来就是被征服的。 -- 斯威特切尼
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. -- Bernara Shaw
...Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. -- A. Einstein
不要为成功而努力，要为做一个有价值的人而努力。 -- 爱因斯坦
You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. -- Charles Chaplin
人必须有自信，这是成功的秘密。 -- 卓别林
...What makes life dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot
没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。 -- 乔治 · 埃略特
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -- Lincoln
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac
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All things in their being are good for something.
天生我才必有用。
Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。
Failure is the mother of success. -- Thomas Paine
失败乃成功之母。
For man is man and master of his fate.
...工作、学习和生活中，大家是不是碰到过这类人：雷声大雨点小或者干脆光打雷不下雨？对于这种嘴上功夫了得，足下功夫欠缺的同志们，我们就可以来一句： You're all mouth and no trousers!
"Your future depends on your dreams." So go to sleep.
“现在的梦想决定着你的将来”，所以还是再睡一会吧。
There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.
...生活中有一种有趣的现象：当人们从事社会地位低下、被人瞧不起的职业时，他们往往避免直言自己的工作。而在提及这些职业的从业者时，大家会选择用一种含蓄委婉的方式来表达。委婉语一种语言艺术。英语中委婉语一词是euphemism，它源于希腊语，词头"eu-"的意思是"good"，词干"phemism"的意思是"speech"，整个字面意义是"word of good omen"(吉言，好地说法)。所谓委婉语，就是用好听的、使人感到愉快的说法代替令人不悦的或不敬的表达方法。
...如果问一下在大家心中最可爱的卡通动漫形象是谁，估计会有大批的朋友把选票投给那只肥胖的猫——加菲！没错，每当这个好吃懒做的家伙和它那些“可怜”的朋友们出现在人们面前的时候，都会惹得我们捧腹大笑。而在笑过之后，加菲猫的很多经典语录，却深深的烙在了喜爱它的人的心中。有人说加菲不仅是一只猫，它更象一个代言人，诉说着传统美国男人的心声。也有人说它是一种哲学，体现着某种超现实主义的悲观。不过我想无论是哪种感觉，都需要我们品过这位“名猫”的“名言”，才能自己找到答案。
...To see what patterns of behavior most Americans consider "normal", I asked an ad agency--whose researchers are experts in uncovering consumer buying habits and motivation--to tell me how Ame
