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- There are people so unusual looking, you feel intelligent for finding them attractive.
- 你需要足够的智商去发现不同寻常的人身上的亮点。
- Jun 20th, 2012
- People who feel powerful rarely have a strong need to become so.
- 那些感觉很有权利的人们几乎没有那么强大的渴望成为一个有权利的人。
- Apr 26th, 2012
- Most so-called political scandals are manufactured attempts to divert us from teasing out the true causes of evil and injustice.
- 大多数所谓的政治丑闻是被制造的，尝试将我们从梳理出真正的丑恶和不公平的原因转移开去
- Apr 26th, 2012
- Squabbling more common at home than in office because at work, you are either beneath (so can't argue back) or above (so don't have to).
- 口角在家里，比在办公室里经常发生，因为在工作中，你要不是下属（所以不能反驳）或者上级（所以不需要）。
- Apr 25th, 2012
- The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.
- 越多的人您需要他们的允许，项目就越危险。
- Apr 22nd, 2012
- Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
- 苦楚：忘记从哪里而来的愤怒。
- Apr 22nd, 2012
- Experts at charm know our need for encouragement and warmth is stronger than our need for complete sincerity.
- 有魅力的专家指导我们对于激励和暖心的需要大于我们对于完全诚实的需要。
- Apr 22nd, 2012
- The family we raise usually at some level a rebuke to the one we came from.
- 我们培养的家庭往往是对培养我们的家庭的一定程度上的批评。
- Apr 21st, 2012
- If sex makes us supremely vulnerable, far easier to have it with strangers than with people we've already given our life to.
- 如果性让我们极其的脆弱，那么和陌生人发生比和我们已经将我们生命给与的人发生要容易的多。
- Apr 21st, 2012
- Most trouble in love is two people responding with panic to disappointments they don't wholly understand.
- 爱情中的大多数问题，是两个人对于他们没有完全明白的失望状况，给与了恐慌的处理。
- Apr 21st, 2012
- People should be allowed to divorce instantly - once they show they completely understand themselves/love. So not so instantly.
- 人们应该被允许立刻离婚——一旦他们充分的理解他们自己/爱情。所以就不能那么快了。
- Apr 21st, 2012
- The typical metropolitan party requires a fairly snappy and upbeat answer to the enquiry: 'well what are you up to these days?'
- 典型的大都市党需要相当活泼的和乐观的答案来回答他们的问题：“这些天你们的目标是什么？”
- Apr 19th, 2012
- In the US, religion and the state are legally separate but practically mixed: in the UK, legally mixed but practically separate.
- 在美国，宗教和州在法律上是分开的但是实际上是融合的：在英国，法律上是融合的但实际上的分隔的。
- Apr 19th, 2012
- Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
- 亲密是和其他人在一起的很奇怪的能力-并且发现他们发现这种能力很好。
- Apr 18th, 2012
- The greater the pain, the more the time horizon shrinks. In extremis: I'm going to just concentrate on the next minute going well.
- 疼痛越严重，时间的范围越缩小。在极端的情况下：我将仅仅集中让我的下一分钟的顺利。
- Apr 16th, 2012
- The prevention of passion too often breeds an impression of love.
- 太经常对激情的阻止，会孕育出爱情的假象。
- Apr 16th, 2012
- My 7 year old: 'Adults always say life is too short for this or that. It may be for them, but it isn't for me.'
- 我7岁大的孩子：“成人们总说生命对于干这个干那个太短了。可能这句话对他们适用，但是对我不适用。”
- Apr 16th, 2012
- Fastest way to recover one's lost youth is to spend time with one's parents: in minutes one can feel 15 again.
- 最快的找寻回逝去的青春的方法，就是和自己的家长度过一段时间：过不了多久您就感觉自己又15岁了。
- Apr 16th, 2012
- @PaulLewis great to meet you - hope your event went well and that our paths cross again.
- @PaulLewis 很高兴见到你-希望你的活动能够进行的顺利，并且以后我们俩的轨迹能够再次相交。
- Apr 14th, 2012
- @AhmadQuarterly Yes, at Waterstones Gower Street on Wed 2nd May, details to come.
- @AhmadQuarterly 是在，在水石高尔夫街于周三五月二日，还会有更多详情。
- Apr 13th, 2012
- Do come to hear me in Cambridge tomorrow, saturday: http://t.co/lLMcvICk
- 请一定要来听明天我在剑桥的演讲，周六：http://t.co/lLMcvICk
- Apr 13th, 2012
- Life goal is to practice, and rehabilitate (from associations of totalitarianism) the concept of social engineering.
- 人生的目标就是要不断的实践，和从极权主义协会（社会工程的概念）恢复过来。
- Apr 12th, 2012
- I'm doing a talk in Cambridge on religion this Saturday, 1.30pm: http://t.co/lLMcvICk
- 我将在这周六在剑桥有一个有关于宗教的讲座，下午一点三十分：http://t.co/lLMcvICk
- Apr 11th, 2012
- Mesmerising distractions of media. Headline: 'Man shoots boss after row over promotion.' No! Get back to your own life.
- 被媒体迷住而分心。标题是：“有人在和老板对升职问题的争吵后开枪打了老板。”不！回到你自己的生活中去。
- Apr 11th, 2012
- There are pieces of countryside so beautiful & untouched, they're arlarming:how long are they going to be allowed to get away with it?
- 有很多很漂亮而且未受損害的鄉村，他們是令人驚慌的：他們還能被允許逃離這個逃離多久？
- Apr 10th, 2012
- Encroaching mortality: with time, life like a party at which guests randomly taken out by a concealed sniper.
- 侵蝕的死亡：隨著時間的推移，生命就像是一個聚會，在這個聚會上客人們隨機的被隱藏的阻擊手帶走。
- Apr 10th, 2012
- Cancer: with time, life like a cheerful party at which random guests intermittently taken out by a sniper.
- 癌癥：隨著時間的推移，人生就像是一個快樂的聚會，在這個聚會上，隨機的客人間歇性的被阻擊手帶走。
- Apr 7th, 2012
- So much of what life is really like still remains undocumented in literature.
- 生命是什麽還有太多的部份沒有被記錄在文獻作品中。
- Apr 7th, 2012
- Nothing brings more energy to parenting than the hope one can do better than one's parents - nor more humility than realisation one won't.
- 沒有任何事比希望孩子能比他們的父母強能給為人父母帶來更大的力量——也非更人性化比目標實現更多。
- Apr 7th, 2012
- There are people who spend hundreds of pounds on a hotel, but then ask if psychotherapy isn't 'a bit self-indulgent'.
- 有很多人花費了幾百磅在一個酒店上，但是過一陣子卻問是否心理諮詢是否有點點放縱自己。
- Apr 7th, 2012
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