The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers' goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates.

译文：精神、道德、言语、行动，大致上以收敛为主，发散是不得已而为之，天地间的人和事物都是这样。

Concrete is the marble of our time, a democratic material.

States are rational actors that seek to maximize their relative power in order to ensure their survival in a competitive international system.

如果你不能身高七尺，那就聪明七尺。

曲意逢迎取得上司喜悦，男子汉不屑于小妾邀宠的勾当；人的本源本性尚未谙通，大丈夫仍保持纯真朴拙的心田。

赏析：表达了一种顺应自然、随遇而安的心态，认为只有这样才能不受悲哀和欢乐的情绪影响。