真相往往比小说更令人惊讶。
Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
每一个心理行为都在生活的经济中有其位置。
The ideas of economists and political philosophers， both when they are right and when they are wrong， are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men， who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence， are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
In times of crisis, transparency builds trust faster than any PR campaign.
The books that we reread the most are the ones that most clearly describe the world we already know.
我们重读最多的书是那些最清楚地描述我们已经知道的世界的书。