True happiness, not ecstasy, nor pain, it is long, blue sea without waves.

真正的快乐，不是狂喜，亦不是苦痛，它是细水长流，碧海无波。

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Even birds were missing. Shearwaters, so adept at using waves to increase their speed, could not show off their expertise without a wave in sight.

鸟儿也不见了踪影，海鸥能娴熟地利用海浪来获取速度，没有海浪的话也就没有了炫技的机会。

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But who ever made big waves without doing small, impractical things?

但没有做过细小的、不切实际的事情，一个人怎能做成大事？

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Like ancient Polynesians who set off over the horizon in their sailing canoes without a clue where they would land, the first kitesurfers pushed out through the waves without knowing how to sail broadside to the wind.

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But they are sort of the character, on the one we were talking about the lethal injection case, they sort of narrowly resolve the issue before the court, without creating big waves.

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If the gas sheet had the same density throughout, radio waves would pass through it without distortion, like light through a window pane.

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