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Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

  • -- Gerald Brenan 杰拉尔德·布雷南

那些有钱的人认为世界上最重要的是爱。穷人知道那是钱。

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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.

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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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

自由只属于那些不再要求生活给他们带来任何受时间变化影响的个人财富的人。

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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

被剥夺作出重要决定的机会的人，开始把他被允许作出的决定视为重要的决定。

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Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

财富并非没有它的优点，相反的情况，虽然它经常被提出，但从来没有被证明具有广泛的说服力。

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Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

品格胜于祖先，个人行为胜于至上。

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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

我们不要自欺。我们必须选择世界和平或世界毁灭。

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