Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.

  • -- George Soros 乔治·索罗斯

市场的设计是为了让个人照顾他们的私人需求和追求利润。这确实是一个伟大的发明,我不会低估它的价值,但它们并不是为了满足社会需求而设计的。

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I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.

我认为我们应该更谨慎地对待我们对年轻女性的期望。期望人们总是穿着名牌服装是不现实的。女孩在成长过程中应该拥有更多的自由,在她们的外表和她们对自己外表的感觉方面。

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

罗马和雅典的一些最杰出的天才对人类灵魂的精神本质有一些模糊的发现,并形成了一些可能的猜想,认为人类是为未来的生存状态而设计的。

Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.

在生孩子之前,我非常努力地工作,以确保我了解周围的环境,弄清楚自己在这个世界上的位置,无论是在工作中还是在社交场合。

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

我确实有过这样的时刻,但我没有对抗性。有时候你在球场上,你会发现自己很有对抗性。这完全是一个发现。

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

市场总是处于一种不确定性和流动性的状态,赚钱的方式是对显而易见的东西进行贴现,然后押注于意料之外的东西。

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

社会的存在只能建立在一定程度的精心设计的谎言的基础上,没有人确切地说出他的想法。

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

人是充满希望和创造的动物,这两者都掩盖了事情是无法改变的这一观点。

We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.

我们利用竞争激烈的市场来安排我们的食品供应。