They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

  • -- Frederic Bastiat 弗雷德里克·巴斯夏

他们最终会以自己的代价认识到,与其对贫困客户进行垄断投资,还不如忍受对富裕客户的竞争。

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My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

然而,我的父亲可以跑得更快。在草地上与他竞争是不可能的。但令人惊讶的是,老年人竟如此迟钝。他们中的一些人跑不上小山,叫它爬楼梯。

You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to.

你的改变有两个原因。要么你学到了足够多你想学的东西,要么你受了足够多的伤害你不得不学。

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

如果人类不学会尊重海洋和雨林,人类将会灭绝。

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

骄傲是承认软弱;它暗地里害怕所有的竞争,害怕所有的竞争对手。

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

我比天堂更能想象地狱;我想这是我的遗产吧。

Better make a short circuit than to wet your hose.

与其弄湿你的水管,不如短路。