Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

  • -- Calvin Coolidge 卡尔文·柯立芝

没有什么比公共开支更容易的了。它似乎不属于任何人。把它送给别人的诱惑是压倒性的。

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One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

我和妻子在大学教授个人理财课程时提出的一个建议是,把所有支出都记下来,看看钱都花到哪里去了。单凭这一点就会让户主对x、y或z的支出三思而后行,并仔细考虑他们是否真的需要某样东西。

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

很明显,做一个好人比做一个坏人要难得多。看起来,这个世界从根本上来说是一个邪恶的地方。所以为了做一个好人,你必须与诱惑和罪恶作斗争。

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one thatll get you home earlier.

中年是在两种诱惑中做出选择,还是选择能让你早点回家的那个。