We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

  • -- J. B. Priestley 普里斯特利

我们年老时为青春的挥霍付出代价。

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It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

这是一种信念,即必须减少不平等的极端和过分现象,以便每个人都能自由地充分发挥他或她的全部潜力。这就是为什么我们把宝贵的时间从生活中抽出来,投入到政治中去。

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

任何一个成年人,只要他认为自己像过去的父母和老师一样,可以变得内省,唤起自己的青春去理解他面前的青春,他就迷失了。

And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.

这是公平的。每个人都将缴纳相同的税款,这将消除偷税漏税和公司的诡计。

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

适度是致命的。没有什么比过度更成功的了。

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

四十是青春的老年;五十岁是老年的青年。

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

价格是你付出的代价。价值是你得到的。