But Kamrany says persistence eventually turns many start-ups into successful ventures.

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This was not only true of his experience at home, but of his failed efforts to turn Dionysius' kingship in Sicily into a successful example of philosophical rule.

这不仅验证于他的国内经历，也验证于他无力,助迪欧尼修斯将西西里王权,转为成功之哲学统治的过往。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

wish you have a very successful semester as you dig into the science of positive psychology and put it into practice in your own lives, and think about how to take positive psychology from the classroom to the world.

祝你们本学期取得成功,深入学习积极心理学的科学,并将之应用于生活，思考如何把积极心理学,从教室带向世界。

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Anyway, you have to overcome these-- you have to think that ... if you go into the field you would probably-- If you're successful-- you would probably end up as a philanthropist; but no movie will be made about your life and you may encounter hostility the whole way.

不管怎样，你们要克服这种想法-,你们要认为,如果你进入这一行，你很可能-,如果你成功了-,你很可能成为一位慈善家;,但是不会有电影记录你的人生,而且你可能整天遭受白眼。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And yet the concepts go into my interests and people, they are literary and it's a mixture of the two that when I'm looking and if I'm successful - which is, not very much amount of time, I put into my writing, so this is something worth exploring.

这些概念成为我兴趣的一部分,人是文学的,是二者的混合,当我的观察卓有成效时,-这种时候不常见，我就将观察记述下来，这是值得探究的。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选