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1. 不积跬步，无以至千里。不积小流，无以成江海。 《劝学篇》—— 荀子

2. 菩提本无树，明镜亦非台，本来无一物，何处惹尘埃。 《六祖坛经》 —— 惠能

3. 天之道，损有余而补不足；人之道则不然，损不足以奉有余。民之饥，以其上食税之多；民之轻死，以其上求生之厚；民不畏死，奈何以死惧之。 —— 老子

4. 世间好物不坚牢，彩云易散琉璃脆。

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1. "Be curious. Read widely. Try new things." – Aaron Swartz

2. “We live on a planet well able to provide a decent life for every soul on it, which is all ninety-nine of a hundred human beings ask. Why in the world can’t we have it?” – Jack Finney, 1970

3. “The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.” – C.A.R. Hoare, Turing Award lecture

4. "The world is everything that is the case." – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922

5. "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1878

6. "This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!" – From a monologue delivered by the character Polonius in Act I Scene III of Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

7. "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." – Abraham Lincoln, 1856

王尔德

1. 我认为，上帝造人有点过高估计了自己的能力。（I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.）

2. 永远原谅敌人，没有什么能比这个让他们更恼火。（Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.）

3. 我什么都能抗拒，除了诱惑。（I can resist everything except temptation.）

4. 为了赢回我的青春，我什么都愿意做，除了锻炼、早起、做个对社会有用的人。（To win back my youth, there is nothing I wouldn't do - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community.）

5. 年轻的时候，我以为钱是人生最重要的，现在我老了，我懂了，确实如此。（When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.）

6. 人生中只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕，那就是：无人议论你。（There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.）

7. 时装是一种让人无法忍受的丑陋，所以我们必须每六个月换一次。（Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.）

8. 我们都在阴沟里，但有些人在仰望星空。（"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars". ）