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In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
在富裕的社会里,奢侈品和必需品之间没有明显的区别。
— John Kenneth Galbraith 加尔布雷思
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更多好句 ↗The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
在我们的社会里,勇气的对立面不是懦弱,而是从众。
Rollo May
罗洛·梅
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
学习经济学的目的不是为了获得一套现成的经济问题的答案,而是学习如何避免被经济学家所欺骗。
Joan Robinson
琼·罗宾逊
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
民意调查就像花园里的孩子,总是把东西挖出来看看它们是如何生长的。
J. B. Priestley
普里斯特利
Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.
那些出生在贫困或社会边缘的人需要我们额外的支持来实现他们的梦想。
Novak Djokovic
德约科维奇
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
有创造力的人有能力将自己从社会压力的网中解放出来,而我们其他人则被困在其中。他能够质疑我们其他人接受的假设。
John William Gardner
约翰·威廉·加德纳
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
当我们自己违法时,无论短期利益如何,我们明显是在鼓励他人违法;因此,我们鼓励混乱和不稳定,从而对我们自己的长期利益造成无法估量的损害。
James William Fulbright
富布赖特