Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

  • -- Avram Noam Chomsky 乔姆斯基

无限的经济增长具有一种神奇的品质,既能平息不满,又能保持特权,这一事实在自由派经济学家中并没有被忽视。

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Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

尽管房屋销售和新屋开工数已降至更典型的水平,但住房市场依然强劲健康。如果没有住房拥有率的扩大和住房市场的强劲,我们的国家就不会有我们今天所经历的经济增长。

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.

大脑就像一台机器,不停地在问:我更喜欢什么?闭上眼睛,拒绝移动,观察你的思想在做什么。它所做的就是对现状感到不满。一个欲望产生了,你满足了那个欲望,另一个欲望在它的地方产生了。

It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.

只是人们应该意识到,对于像我这样宁愿默默无闻地消失在人群中的人来说,成为一名演员的名人一面很少是令人愉快的。

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

对自己不满意的人会成长;不确定自己是否正确的人会学到很多东西。

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

能力永远赶不上对它的需求。