看《动物世界》里刚孵化出来的小鳄鱼可爱极了，想必“再凶猛的野兽都有一个可爱的童年”。而于人的成长却是相反的过程，再温文尔雅的中年都曾是一个躁动的青年，再慈悲宽厚的长者都曾是一个逆反的少年。而教师职业之所以崇高更是因其职业的风险，我眼里的单词teenager基本上可以翻译成火药桶:)

via:two ways of looking at a fish
不经意看到阮一峰翻译的一些引言摘录，挑了些自己喜欢的。

许多人说他们在思考，实际上他们只是在重新安排偏见。-William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

那些为自己聪明而得意的人，就好像夸耀牢房宽敞的囚徒。-Simone Weil
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

大多数人过着一种平静的绝望生活，他们心中的歌和他们一起埋入坟墓。-Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

他不知道，信心如同猜疑，会无限增长，希望好比恐惧，会无限膨胀。-Charles Mackay
He did not see that confidence, like mistrust, could be increased, almost ad infinitum, and that hope was as extravagant as fear.

对待生活别太严肃了，你绝不会活着离开的。-Elbert Hubbard
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out alive.

活着是美好的，死去是平静的。真正困难的是两者之间的过渡。-Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

我们所有人都活在臭水沟里，但是有些人仰望星辰。-Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

没有什么比有效地做那些根本不需要做的事更无效了。-Peter F. Drucker
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

美是一种力量，微笑是它的剑。-Charles Reade
Beauty is power, a smile is its sword.

爱的反义词不是恨，而是冷漠。-Elie Wiesel
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.

不快乐是一片需要英雄的大陆。-Goethe
Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.

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• Moving from Promise to Practice - 2003