If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

如果我们能支配财富,我们就会富有而自由;如果财富支配我们,我们就真的很穷。

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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

每个人的内心都是一片海洋。每一个走在街上的人。每个人都是一个由思想、见解和感受组成的宇宙。但每个人都有自己的缺陷,因为我们无法真正地向世界展现自己。

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

一个人的知识只局限于书本,而他的财富却掌握在别人的手中,当需要知识或财富时,他既不能使用知识,也不能使用财富。

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

一个贫穷的人会有虚假的羞耻,这种羞耻要么对他造成极大伤害,要么对他有利;羞耻是贫穷,自信是财富。

I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness.

我一直主张为提高我们的生产力和竞争力的项目提供资金。