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The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  • -- Hendrik Willem van Loon 亨德里克·威廉·房龙

艺术比股市或国会辩论更能反映我们这个世界正在发生的事情。

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I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual perspective. To sidestep any biases I might have, I use the objective lens of the stock market to discover which policies actually delivered prosperity to emerging markets.

我出生在牙买加，但在著名的第一世界学府接受教育，现在在那里工作，所以我相信我有一个独特的、双重的视角。为了避免我可能存在的任何偏见，我利用股市的客观视角，来发现哪些政策实际上给新兴市场带来了繁荣。

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Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.

太多的运动员生活在一个小窗口。他们没有自己的愿景——他们在足球之外可以是什么，他们对一个社区意味着什么。他们只是不知道更多。我的希望和梦想是无限的。

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I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

我认为艺术家有点像电脑。他从周围的世界，从他的过去，从他自己的经历中获得信息。这些都进入大脑。

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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

由于缺乏独到的学识，没有形成良好的思维习惯，对写作艺术一窍不通，我决定写一本书。

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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

我们成功的企业，需要我们所拥有的积极的品质，但我们在那些也可以利用我们的缺点。

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Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

在政策制定者的决策中，情报发挥着比我在国会或以前所见过的任何时候都更为重要的作用。

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In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

在竞争激烈的报纸市场，每位编辑都需要吸引女性读者，以提高发行量。

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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

死亡和税收的唯一区别在于，死亡不会在国会每次开会时都变得更糟。

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If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

如果我们知道发生在我们身上的每件事的意义，那么就没有意义了。

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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

气压计,n。字体这是一种巧妙的仪器，能显示我们现在的天气状况。

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By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

在我六年级的时候，我就能凭记忆把世界上的每个国家都联系起来。

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

作为一个小商人，你没有比真相更大的影响力。

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My personal belief is that everything is always happening all at once.

我个人的信念是，所有的事情总是同时发生。

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If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

如果你为了使一个人更好而说谎，那就不是罪。

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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

影响一天的质量，那是艺术的最高境界。

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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

令人惊讶的是，即使是现在也有如此多的偏见。

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The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

辩论的目的是探讨问题，而不是结束问题。

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

图画破坏墙壁的次数比装饰墙壁的次数要多。

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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

意识到自己的力量使我们谦虚。

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But I do think its necessary to have debates.

但我确实认为有必要进行辩论。

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Even the best fall down sometimes.

即使是最优秀的人，有时也会跌倒。

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There is no free market for oil.

石油没有自由市场。

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