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●The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body.After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up,still there will be a scar left behind.——Francois La Rochefoucauld
【Francois La Rochefoucauld（法国作家）：思想上的缺陷和弱点正如身体上的创伤，就算用尽一切办法将其治愈，仍然会留下疤痕。】
●It has been said that time heals all wounds.I do not agree.The wounds remain.In time,the mind,protecting its sanity,covers them with scar tissue,and the pain lessens,but it is never gone.——Rose kennedy
【罗丝·肯尼迪（肯尼迪总统的母亲）：人们都说时间可以治愈一切伤口，我可不这么认为。伤口是一直存在着的。随着时间的流逝，出于保护，伤口被覆盖上疤痕，疼痛随之减轻，但这一切永远也不会消失。】
●The test of the moralityof a society is what it doesfor its children.——Dietrich Bonhoeffer
【Dietrich Bonhoeffer（德国青年神学家，1906-1945）：为孩子们所做的一切应成为衡量社会道德的标尺。】
●Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.——Mark Twain
【马克·吐温：在所有的动物中，只有人类是残忍的。他们是唯一将快乐建立在制造痛苦之上的动物。】
●Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.——Kahlil Gibran
【哈利勒·纪伯伦（著名黎巴嫩诗人、哲学家和艺术家，1883-1931）：受苦能突显坚强的灵魂，最明显的特征就是那伤口痊愈的疤痕。】
●Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.——Oscar Wilde
【王尔德（爱尔兰诗人、剧作家，1854-1900）：当人以自己身份说话的时候，便越不是自己。给他一个面具，他便会告诉你事实。】
●The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but… that this humiliation is seen by everyone.——Milan Kundera
【米兰·昆德拉：羞耻的本质并不是我们个人的错误，而是被他人看见的耻辱。】
●While the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.——Helen Keller
【海伦·凯勒：虽然世界充满苦难，但是苦难总是可以战胜的。】
●We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.——Plato
【柏拉图：孩子害怕黑暗，情有可原；人生真正的悲剧，是成人害怕光明。】
●It’s not so important who starts the game,but who finishes it.——John Wooden
【约翰·伍登（美国大学篮球传奇教练，曾执教UCLA(即加州大学洛衫矶分校)，获得NCAA(即美国全国大学体育联盟)男篮1967-1973年的7连霸）：谁开局并不重要，重要的是谁完成了比赛。】
●The ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.——Erich Fromm
【弗洛姆（西方著名的哲学家、社会学家和心理学家，新弗洛伊德主义的最重要的理论家，法兰克福学派的重要成员，1900-1980）：因不得不超越自我之故，人类终极的选择，是创造或者毁灭，爱或者恨。】
●Crime butchers innocents to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.——Maximilien Robespierre
【马克西米连·罗伯斯庇尔（法国革命家，1758-1794）：罪恶屠杀无辜以保卫战利品，而无辜者尽其所能与罪恶的企图抗争。】
●Coincidences seem to be the source for some of our greatest irrationalities.——Josh Tenenbaum
【Josh Tenenbaum（MIT cognitive scientist|麻省理工学院认知科学家）：巧合似乎是我们最大错误的根源。】
●If men could only know each other, they would neitheridolize nor hate.——Elbert Hubbert
【埃尔伯特·哈伯特：如果男人们相互了解，他们就既不会崇拜也不会怨恨。】
●Remember that all through history there have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Always.——Mahatma Gandhi
【甘地：请记住，历史上那些暴君和杀人犯都曾有一度战无不胜，但最终他们全部都倒下了。永远如此。】
●Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes.
【吃一堑，长一智。】
●The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
【失败是成功之母。】
●In order to learn the most important lessons of life, one must each day surmount a fear.——Ralph Waldo Emerson
【爱默生（美国19世纪著名哲学家、文学家，1803-1882）：为了汲取人生中最重要的教训，人必须每天都战胜恐惧。】
●Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.——T. S. Eliot
【T. S. Eliot（Thomas Stearns Eliot，托马斯·斯特恩斯·艾略特，诗人、评论家、剧作家，1888-1965）：在理想与现实之间，在动机与行为之间，总有阴影徘徊。】
●Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends.——T. S. Eliot
【T. S. Eliot：在渴欲与痉挛之间，在潜在与存在之间，在本质和传承之间，幕帘重重。这就是世界中止的方式。】
●How secrets deep. How secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.——Cory Doctorow
【科利·多克托罗（1971年7月11日出生于加拿大渥太华多伦多，科幻小说作家和技术激进主义分子）：秘密如此深藏，秘密变得如此黑暗。这就是秘密的本质。】
●One tends to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.——Sherlock Holmes
【歇洛克·福尔摩斯：将事实强加于理论，而非将理论运用于事实。】
●Evil draws men together.——Aristotle
【亚里士多德：邪恶将人聚于一处。】
●I didn’t have anything against them, and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe they’re just the ones who have to pay for it.——Perry Smith
【Perry Smith（冷血杀手，与同伙Dick Hickock关系微妙；作家Truman Capote的『In Cold Blood』一书的原型；可参看电影『Capote』、『Infamous』）：我并不针对他们，他们也没对我犯过错，是其他人这么对我的。也许他们是应该为此偿还的人。】
●There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.——Ecclesiastes 7:20
【旧约-传道书 第七章 第二十篇：时常行善而不犯罪的义人，世上实在没有。】

●The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary.Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.——Joseph Conrad
【约瑟夫·康拉德（波兰出生的英国作家）：将邪恶的产生归结于超自然的因素是没有必要的，人类自身就足以实施每一种恶行。】
●Try again.Fail again.Fail better.——Samuel Beckett
【Samuel Beckett（当代最著名的荒诞剧作家）：再试，再失败，更好地失败。】
●All is riddle,and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.——Emerson
【爱默生（美国诗人、散文家、哲学家）：所有的事物都是谜团，而解开一个谜的钥匙……是另一个谜。】
●The farther backward you can look,the farther forward you will see.——Winston Churchill
【温斯顿·邱吉尔：你回首看得越远，你向前也会看得越远。】
●When you look long into an abyss,the abyss looks into you.——Nietzsche
【尼采：当你凝视深渊时，深渊也在凝视你。】
●There are certain clues at a crime scene which,by their very nature, do not lend themselves to being collected or examined.How does one collect love, rage, hatred, fear?——Dr. James T. Reese
【詹姆斯·瑞斯博士（美国精神创伤压力处理方面的专家）：犯罪现场中的某些线索根据它们自己本身的性质，是不容易收集起来检测的。一个人又怎么能收集起爱情、愤怒、憎恨和害怕？】
●Imagination is more important than knowledge.Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.—— Einstein
【爱因斯坦：想象力比知识更为重要。知识是有限的，而想象力则包围着整个世界。】
●Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.Try to be better than yourself.——William Faulkner
【威廉姆斯·福克纳（美国作家）：别自寻烦恼的只想比你同时代的人或是先辈们出色，试着比你自己更出色吧。】
●Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.——Samuel Johnson
【赛缪尔·约翰森（英国文豪）：几乎所有荒谬的行为均源自于模仿那些我们不可能雷同的人。】
●Don't forget that I cannot see myself that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.——Jacques Rigaut
【Jacques Rigaut（法国诗人）：别忘了我看不到我自己，我的角色仅限于看向镜子里的那个人。】
●Birds sing after a storm.Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?——Rose Kennedy
【罗丝·肯尼迪（肯尼迪总统的母亲）：鸟儿在暴风雨后歌唱，人们为什么在仍是阳光普照的时候还不尽情感受快乐呢？】
●When a good man is hurt,all who would be called good must suffer with him.——Euripides
【Euripides（希腊悲剧诗人）：当一个好人受到伤害，所有的好人定将与其同历磨难。】
●When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.——Euripides
【Euripides：爱得太深，会失去所有荣耀和价值。】
●The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against it's existence,rather,a condition of it.——Nietzsche
【尼采：一件事情的不合理性，与其通过驳斥其存在本身来证明，倒不如通过驳斥使这不合理性存在的条件来解释。】
●Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.——Shakespeare
【莎士比亚：没有什么比希望不平凡而更平凡的了。】
●With foxes, we must play the fox.——Dr. Thomas Fuller
【Dr. Thomas Fuller：遇到狐狸时，我们一定要学会狡猾。】
●When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable,must be the truth.——Sherlock Holmes
【夏洛克·福尔摩斯（柯南道尔笔下的名侦探）：当你排除了所有的不可能，无论剩下的是什么，即使是不可能也一定是真相。】
●There is no hunting like the hunting of man.And those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it never really care for anything else.——Hemingway
【海明威：没有哪种狩猎像人类的狩猎，那些武装的狩猎者一直乐此不疲，却从来也不在乎其他的事。】
●The healthy man does not torture others.Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.——Carl Jung
【荣格：健康的人不会折磨他人，往往是那些曾受折磨的人转而成为折磨他人者。】
●A belief is not merely an idea that mind possesses.It is an idea that possesses the mind.——Robert Oxton Bolton
【Robert Oxton Bolton（作家）：信仰不只是一种受头脑支配的思想，它也是一种可以支配头脑的思想。】
●A question that sometimes drives me hazy--am I or the others crazy?——Einstein
【爱因斯坦：有时我会迷惑，是我疯了还是其他人疯了？】
●Unfortunately a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.——Sir Peter Ustinov
【彼得·乌斯蒂诺夫爵士（文化界名人、谐星、英国老牌演员、剧作家、 表演艺术家、小说家、社会活动家、歌剧导演）：不幸的是，多梦的代价就是噩梦也将随之增多。】
●Ideologies separate us, dreams and anguish bring us together.——Eugene Ionesco
【尤金·艾里斯柯（罗马尼亚荒谬剧剧作家）：意识形态分离了我们，而梦想和痛苦使我们走到了一起。】
●The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.——Harriet Beecher Stowe
【哈里耶持·比彻·斯托（新英格兰女小说家、反奴隶制度作家，代表作是『汤姆叔叔的小屋』）：最痛苦的泪水从坟墓里流出，为了还没有说出口的话和还没有做过的事。】
●Evil is unspectacular and always human.And shares our bed... and eats at our table.——W.H. Auden
【W. H. 奥顿（英国诗人）：恶魔通常只是凡人并且毫不起眼，他们与我们同床，与我们同桌共餐。】
●Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.——Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
【伊丽莎白·巴瑞特·勃朗宁（十九世纪英国著名女诗人）：在没尽全力之前不作评价。】
●What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.——Titus Lucretius Carus
【卢克莱修（古罗马诗人、唯物主义哲学家）：吾之美食，汝之鸩毒。】
●Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.——Confucius
【孔子：】
●Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.——Genesis 9:6
【旧约 创世纪 第九章：凡流人血的，他的血也必被人所流。】
●What we do for ourselves dies with us.What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.——Albert Pine
【Albert Pine（英国作家）：为自己做的都会随着死去而消逝，为他人和世界所做的将会延续而不朽。】
●It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us（but we can still love them）.——Norman Maclean
【诺曼· 麦考连（芝加哥大学英国文学教授，他的自传被改编成电影『大河恋』）：那些我们所熟悉的一同生活且被我们所爱的人们逃避了我们。（即便这样，我们仍然爱着他们。）】
●The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhmed by the tribe.——Nietzsche
【尼采：个体必须始终在社会中挣扎求生，才能使自己不至幻灭。】
●You can take many paths to get to the same place.——An Old Apache Saying
【Apache部落谚语： 条条大路通罗马。】
●Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures.So that society must take the place of the victim,and on his behalf,demand atonement or grant forgiveness.——W.H. Auden
【W. H. 奥顿：谋杀是独特的，因为它完全破坏了受害人。所以社会必须为死者说话，而且应以死者的名义来要求补偿或行使赦免】
●It is better to be violent if there's violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.——Gandhi
【甘地：如果我们心里有暴力，把暴力发泄出来。这要胜过披上一层非暴力的外衣来掩盖虚弱。】
●I object to violence because when it appears to do good,the good is only temporary.The evil it does is permanent.——Gandhi
【甘地：我反对暴力，因为当暴力被用来做善事时，善事也仅仅是暂时的。】
●A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.——Diane Arbus
【黛安·阿勃丝（犹太籍女摄影师）：照片是关于秘密的秘密，它揭示的越多，你知道的就越少。】
●An American has no sense of privacy.He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.——Bernard Shaw
【肖伯纳：美国人没有对隐私的认识，他不知道那是什么意思。在这个国家中没有隐私这样的事情。】
●Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.——Anthony Brandt
【Anthony Brandt：其他的事情可能会改变我们，但我们开始并终结于家庭。】
●The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.——Mexican Proverb
【墨西哥谚语：家不是建立在土地之上，而是建立在女性之上。】
●There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.——Voltaire
【伏尔泰：有些人只会用文字来掩饰他们的思想。】
●We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.——Francois de La
【Francois de La（作家）：在人前我们总是习惯于伪装自己，但最终也蒙骗了自己。】
●Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.——Albert Einstein
【爱因斯坦：当一个人把自己当成真理和知识的法官时，他将被上帝的嘲笑毁灭。】
●In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.——George Orwell
【乔治·奥威尔（英国作家）：在大欺骗的时代，说出真相才是革命性的举动。】

Fresh starts thanks to the calendar they happen every year --just set your watch to January, our reward for surviving the holiday season is a new year. Bringing on the great tradition of new years resolutions, put your past behind you and start over. It’s hard to resist the chance of a new beginning, a chance to put the problems of last year to bed.

Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It’s not on the calendar, it’s not a birthday, it’s not a new year, it’s an event—big or small, something that changes us, ideally it gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world, letting go of old habits, old memories.

   What's important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning, but it's also important to remember amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.