Quotes

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On the big clock of time, there is only one word: present.

——William Shakespeare, English playwright

在时间的大钟上，只有两个字——现在。

——英国戏剧家莎士比亚

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

——Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright

我交朋友时选好看的，结交熟人时选高尚的，树敌时选聪明的。

——爱尔兰剧作家、诗人王尔德

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

——Emily Dickinson, American poet

没有一艘船能像一本书，把人带往远方。

——美国诗人艾米莉·狄金森

Don’t go too slow otherwise the f lowers will have all withered. Don’t move too fast either, in case the flowers don’t have time to bloom.

——Anthony Ma, author

不要走得太慢，花会凋谢的。也不要走得太快，那样，花还没有开。

——作家安东尼

If a person has a few troublesome relatives, then his/her happiness levels will plummet straight down. In China, relatives are a group of people most lacking in sense of appropriateness.

——Zhou Chong, post-80s author

一个人如果有几个熊亲戚，生活的幸福值就会直线下降。在中国，亲戚是最缺乏界限感的一群人。

——80后作家周冲

To want face conforms to human nature; to not want any face goes against it. The things that so-called “great” people do, generally go against their own human nature but conform to the human nature of a collective group.

——Ren Zhengfei, president of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

要脸是顺应人性的，不要脸是违背人性的。所谓伟大者，干的基本上是有违自身人性但顺应组织群体人性的事。

——华为总裁任正非