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[Mar. 6th, 2007|11:36 am] |
うつくしや雲雀の鳴し跡の空
utsukushi ya hibari no nakushi ato no sora
lovely--
the sky after a lark
has sung
translated by David Lanoue
хорошо-то как!
небо после песенки
жаворонка |
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[Mar. 6th, 2007|07:36 pm] |
There are two different types of achievements. Regaining muscle strength after recuperation from a broken leg and making the last payment on a thirty year mortgage are victories with fixed features that allow pride when-attained. But the desire to be rich or have higher status lacks this quality, for there , are always others with morc wealth or higher status. Hence, many who seek these goals arc never satisficd and experience chronic uncertainty instead of pride. They discount the present moment, for all that matters is tomorrow, next month, or next year. And when those times arrive, they, too, are trashed by the next set of future dates.
. Listen to Friedrich Hayek, an economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1974, "Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which. . . opens an astounding range of choices to the poor man."* Kogan, p 143.
*quoted from F.A. Hayek, The Road to Sefdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) |
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