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Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.

  • -- Peter Blair Henry 彼得布莱尔亨利

正如一个人在年轻时推迟满足的能力是未来学术和专业成就的有力预测器一样，纪律对于国家的长期经济健康也至关重要。

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If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

如果一种商品毫无用处，换句话说，如果它对我们的满足感毫无帮助，那么它就没有可交换的价值，无论它有多么稀缺，也无论购买它需要多少劳动力。

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We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

作为语言使用者，我们在短短几千年的时间里走到了一定的距离，我们可以从中得到一些满足，但认识到我们还有这么一段距离要走，应该是一种更深层次的满足，甚至是一种兴奋。

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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

我们听说过国富论、生产能力论、市场供求论，却忘记了这些词不再有任何意义，如果它们有任何意义的话，那么人类的幸福、劳动和必需品也就不再有任何意义了。

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I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

我在学术上是个书呆子。但我也是一名运动员和音乐家。我从来不想被排除在任何情况之外。我想这是最重要的。

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The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination.

天才的想象力远远超过他的智力;这位学者的智力大大超过了他的想象。

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Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

让你最大的拥有成为快乐地放弃任何拥有的能力。

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My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

我爸爸是个企业家，也许我也有他的一些能力。

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Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

每个人都知道工业化国家是罪魁祸首。

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