All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

  • -- Michele Bachmann 巴克曼

我们面临的所有债务问题都是人为造成的。我们创造了它们。这叫做幻想经济学。幻想经济学只适用于幻想世界。这在现实中行不通。

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Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

答案是不够的,应该鼓励学生提出问题,并探索规范的替代方案。企业家精神和发明创造是新经济的支柱,但我怀疑他们在经济学课程上得到的肯定会更多。

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

古巴导弹危机的教训显而易见:实力可以防止战争;弱点邀请。我们需要一位了解这一点的总司令,他不会让我们面对一个自认为不了解的敌人。

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

我读过大量的科幻小说。我着迷于其他的世界,其他的环境。对我来说,这是幻想,但它不是纯粹逃避现实意义上的幻想。

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

首先,我们的快乐消失了——然后是我们的希望,然后是我们的恐惧——当这些都消失了,我们的债务就归于尘土——我们也死了。

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

在生物学的酷经济学中,生存仅仅意味着一个人自身基因在未来几代人身上的延续。

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

投票就像偿还债务,如果有可能履行,这是一项不可忽视的责任。

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

面对自己的死亡,我立刻有了清醒和目标感。

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

点燃蜡烛就是投下阴影。