The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

  • -- Adam Smith 亚当·史密斯

卡车、易货交易和用一种东西交换另一种东西的倾向对所有人来说都是普遍的,在任何其他动物种族中都找不到这种倾向。

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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

我们在这个国家所发现的,也许我们现在更加意识到的,是我们曾经遇到的一个问题,即使是在最好的时候,那就是那些睡在栅栏上的人,你可能会说,无家可归的人,是我们自己选择的。

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

大多数时候,人们在电视上的目标都很低。他们正试图达到这个共识,尤其是在网络电视上。

I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.

我发现修改你自己作品的最好方法就是假装是别人写的,然后把活生生的东西撕掉。

The left has lost the common touch.

左派已经失去了平易近人的作风。