The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

一美元的价值是社会性的,因为它是由社会创造的。

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

没有一个社会能够消除人类的悲伤,没有一个政治制度能够把我们从生活的痛苦、对死亡的恐惧和对绝对的渴望中解救出来。是人的条件决定了社会的条件,而不是社会条件决定人的条件。

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

可以肯定的是,任何一种社会机制,无论构建得多么好,都不可能有效,除非它背后有一种意愿和决心使其发挥作用。

The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.

互联网的有趣之处在于,它为人们创造了一种另类的朋友圈。

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

沉思的行为创造了被创造的事物。