Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

  • -- Studs Terkel 特克尔

也许正是这种幽灵最常萦绕在工作的男男女女身上:人们的计划报废与他们生产的产品的计划报废是一体的。或出售。

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

我们的发明往往是漂亮的玩具,分散我们的注意力从严肃的事情。它们只是改进的手段,以达到未改进的目的。

The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play.

高尔夫球场离磨坊很近 几乎每天 劳动的孩子们可以向外看 看他们在玩。

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

人类对人类的不人道使无数的人哀悼!

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

珍惜你的人际关系,而不是你的财产。