有人会认为我想得太多了，但是你应该知道真正的生活，也许生活中最重要的是钱、权力和声誉，它们当中我一样也没有。

Someone would think I thinking too much, but you ought to know the real life, maybe the most important thing in our life is money, power and reputation. None of them I have.

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他说：“我的格言是虽然希望得到最好的，但一定要为最糟糕的情形做好准备，当事情变得更糟的时候，你就不要想得太多。”

"My motto is: be prepared for the worst but hope for the best," he said. "If things get worse, you won't think much about it."

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不用想得太多，我一直认为这句话的反面是对的，但是他的冷静值得人注意，让我无法忘怀。

Without thinking about it much, I had always assumed that the opposite was true. But his sober assurance was arresting. I could not forget it.

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