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Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.

  • -- Peter Blair Henry 彼得布莱尔亨利

正如一个人在年轻时推迟满足的能力是未来学术和专业成就的有力预测器一样，纪律对于国家的长期经济健康也至关重要。

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If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

如果一种商品毫无用处，换句话说，如果它对我们的满足感毫无帮助，那么它就没有可交换的价值，无论它有多么稀缺，也无论购买它需要多少劳动力。

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The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

在整个课程中，每天晚上都进行同样的练习，并取得了同样的成功。许多人表示，他们很高兴发现了这样一种简单的方法，可以减轻冗长演讲的沉闷。

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In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

在这项工作中，我遭到了一些人的反对，他们只主张无法实现的东西，因为立即可能的东西超出了他们的道德勇气、行政能力和政治远见。

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It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.

我从伯克利毕业后过了几年才敢开始写作。这种学术心态——无论如何对我来说有点肤浅——已经开始消退。

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I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

我在学术上是个书呆子。但我也是一名运动员和音乐家。我从来不想被排除在任何情况之外。我想这是最重要的。

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I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

我以一种方式玩游戏。我付出了我所拥有的一切。它不需要任何能力去催促。

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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

一个国家的债务，如果不过度，将是我们国家的福祉。

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Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

国家不是暴徒。他们是聪明人的身体。

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