Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

  • -- Charles Adams 查尔斯·亚当斯

统治者减税并不是为了仁慈。权宜之计和贪婪造成了高税收,通常需要一场迫在眉睫的灾难才能把它降下来。

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I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.

我做这件事不是因为普遍存在的潜在的贪婪,而是因为贪婪,在正确的时间做正确的事情,在你拥有影响力的时候运用你的影响力,用什么理由做什么。

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

我要在两个月内完成所有的学业才能毕业,然后他们说,对不起,你必须考驾照。我只是说,哦,算了吧。

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

对我来说,野兽就是贪婪。无论你读过但丁,斯威夫特,还是这些人中的任何一个,它总是归结为同一件事:灵魂的堕落。

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

自从穴居人在墙上作画以来,这种或那种视觉叙事就一直存在。