You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

-- Daniel Hannan 丹尼尔·汉南

你不可能永远压榨经济中有生产力的部分，以资助对无生产力部分前所未有的大量消费。

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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

很少有人有真正的艺术才能。因此，通过努力来刺激局势既不合适，也没有效果。如果你有一种强烈的，不安分的写作或绘画的冲动，只要吃点甜食，这种感觉就会过去。

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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

不是通过增加国家的资本，而是通过使这些资本中比其他情况下更大的一部分具有活性和生产性，使最明智的银行业务能够增加国家的工业。

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There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

这里有一种基本的张力。有人说，我想把这片森林砍伐掉，把它砍成锯材，因为这对我来说是一件具有经济效益的事情。

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