Помогите, пожалуйста, с переводом:

Those who match nothing but themselves rarely notice the hairpin turns of external decree. They think in the rich syntax that results from living life in the wrong order.

* 'to match (s.o.)' here may mean 'to equal', ie to be as good as (s.o. else at doing sth).
* 'Those who match nothing but themselves' may mean 'People who aren't as good as others at anything'. This doesn't explain why he says 'match nothing' rather than 'match no-one', though.
* 'hairpin turns' may mean 'hairpin bends' (on a road or race track), ie very sharp bends -- but that's just a guess.
* Rest -- I've no idea.

цитаты из сети
" ....we are necessitated, whether by inward necessitating forces, or by God's external decree"
"..an alien will, as it were, is at work in us and that our own choice requires the condition of an external decree"

иначе, имхо, действие неких внешних сил