The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

  • -- Jacques Delors 雅克·德洛尔

一个纯粹的集体体系的问题不仅在于它需要经济增长和正确的人口趋势,还在于它阻止人们以负责任的方式思考自己的未来。

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Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.

当我们拥有自己的国家时,没有什么能阻止我们成为并继续成为一个统一的人类的倡导者。为了完成这一使命,我们不必把自己真正地安置在憎恨和蔑视我们的国家之中。

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

我认为,无论你是右派还是左派,无论是经济学家还是政策制定者,我所认识的每一位严肃的分析师都同意,在某个时候,你必须处理福利问题。

I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.

我厌倦了这里所谓的科学……在过去的几年里,我们在这类事情上花费了数百万美元,现在是时候停止了。

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

我只是认为,去看电影的集体体验是无法重现的。

Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

个人的努力可以带来卓越,但只有集体的努力才能有效地实现。

We must take things as they come, but that does not mean that we must leave them that way.

我们必须既来之则安之,但这并不意味着我们必须顺其自然。

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

我不能做妻子。我不是那种人。妻子们总是不得不妥协。

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

我可怜的孩子的健康状况使我不能离开家一晚。

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

教一只鹦鹉“供给和需求”这两个术语,你就有了一位经济学家。

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

能力永远赶不上对它的需求。