The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

  • -- Paul Dirac 狄拉克

世界正在遭受买主短缺之苦,这是很容易理解的,这不是因为人们不希望拥有货物,而是因为人们不愿意放弃可以赚取固定收入的东西来换取这些货物。

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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

生存的斗争不仅存在于物质世界,也存在于精神世界。理论是一种思维,它的生存权与它抵抗竞争对手灭绝的能力是相辅相成的。

Love is more than just a feeling: it's a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, "I understand" than to hear, "You're right."

爱不仅仅是一种感觉:它是一个需要持续关注的过程。良好的爱需要笑声、忠诚,需要更多的是能够说“我理解”,而不是听到“你是对的”。

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

我们真正需要理解的是,所有这些事情都很重要,它们都源于这样一个事实,即某些人生活在权力和权威之中,他们希望维持这种权力和权威。

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

文明世界需要考虑一个决定,当单一的政治家不被允许继续掌权。

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

短缺和过剩的循环是石油整个历史的特征。