The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

  • -- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

经济学的第一课是稀缺性:任何东西永远不会足够满足所有想要它的人。政治的第一课是忽视经济学的第一课。

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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

政治家的职业生涯主要是使国家的一部分做它不想做的事,以取悦和满足国家的另一部分。

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

忽视像电视这样的重要媒介是不可能的。我们应该知道如何使用它,学会在其中工作,并在其中表达新的价值。

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

因为我对自己的意见并不那么着迷,所以我不顾别人的看法。

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

我不可能让每个人都满意,所以我决定让自己满意。