If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

  • -- Theodore H. White 白修德

如果你谋生,如果你自己挣钱,你就是自由的——不管这个星球上的人有多自由。

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Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant?

我认为,风格是一种炫耀。你是谁?你今天做了什么?你对我有什么价值?你能给这个世界带来什么?你今天在这个星球上是如何度过的?你每一秒的时间是怎么度过的?你现在在做什么?你还活着,还是在梦游?

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

我想谈谈自由市场。计算机时代的信息是地球上仅存的最后一个真正的自由市场,除了那些土著人还在生存的自由市场。这基本上是有限的。

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

你最珍贵、最有价值的财产和最强大的力量都是无形的。没人能拿走它们。你,只有你,才能给予他们。你会因你的付出而得到丰盛。

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

你意识到,不管你怎么不去想死亡——或者不去想别人的死亡——你只是一个日复一日生活的有机体。我很感激我在这里。

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

这片用我们的眼泪和鲜血浇灌过的土地,现在是我们的祖国,我们很满足于呆在充满智慧和福音自由的地方。

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

只要我觉得合适,我就把我的牙齿拔掉,等它们拔掉以后,我就会过得很好。我开始以稀粥为生,上帝保佑,我总能再回到过去。

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

一个人忠于他的俱乐部比忠于他的星球容易;规章制度较短,他与其他成员有私人关系。

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

人不可自以为行恶就可以得善报,反害自己的性命。对他自己的邪恶影响是肯定的。

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

为实现你的愿望制定一个明确的计划,并立即开始,不管你是否准备好了,把这个计划付诸行动。

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

来自一个没有鲜花的星球上的人会认为,我们一定是高兴得发疯了,才会有这样的事情发生在我们身上。

The worst mistake you can make is walking away from the person who actually stood there and waited for you.

你能犯的最糟糕的错误就是离开那个真正站在那里等你的人。

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

任何来自外太空的游客看完这颗行星后都会说:“我想见经理。”

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

当然,有时要听从指导,有时要冒着一切危险走自己的路。

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

那些被世界称为不道德的书,是那些让世界感到羞耻的书。

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

关于薪资的故事是侵入性的。你会问你的邻居他们的工作挣多少钱吗?

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

不管这个策略多么漂亮,你都应该偶尔看看结果。

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

我从来不用到今天,因为我的钱就是我挣的钱。

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

不管我怎么打扮,我曾经是个间谍,我并不以此为荣。

Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.

永远不要因为一时的感觉而做出永久的决定。

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

减轻别人的心痛就是忘记自己的心痛。

Superpowers, don't always make you a superhero.

超能力,并不总能让你成为超级英雄。

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

对你烧的东西征税,而不是你挣的。