“Long Live Freedom”

我们在这里告诉你，集体主义实验永远不是困扰全世界人民的各种问题的解决之道；相反，它才是问题的根源。请相信我，没有人比我们阿根廷人更有资格来证明这两点。我们在1860年采纳自由模式时，35年间我们成为了世界上领先的大国。而当我们在过去的100年里拥抱集体主义时，我们目睹了我国的公民如何陷入系统性的贫穷，全球排名下降到了第140位。

那么，当我们谈论自由主义时，我们指的是什么呢？让我引用阿根廷自由主义最大权威，阿尔贝托·贝内加斯·林奇（Alberto Benegas Lynch Jr.）教授的话，他说自由主义是基于非侵犯原则，捍卫生命、自由和财产权利，对他人生活计划的不设限制的尊重。其基本机构是私有财产、不受国家干预的市场、自由竞争、劳动分工和社会合作，成功只能通过提供更高质量或更优惠价格的商品来服务他人而实现。

不论你的生命多么平庸，都应正视它并勇敢地生活，不要回避或恶语中伤它。它不像你认为的那样糟糕，当你最富有之时往往看起来最为贫穷。喜欢挑剔的人甚至在天堂里也能找到错误。热爱你的生活吧，尽管它贫穷；即使居于陋室，你也可能有愉快、兴奋和光辉的时刻。照射在济贫院窗户上的阳光，同映在富人屋上的一样灿烂，早春时门前的积雪同样融化。我认为一个人要想知足地生活，必须具有一颗平静的心，如此他的生活才会像在皇宫中一样快乐。

There are thousands of useful expressions that are not generally considered idioms. They are so easy to understand that they are apt to be neglected. But those who neglect them will forget them, and fail to use them when they need them.

You cannot learn to write with much freedom of expression till you have laid in a stock of useful phrases and sentences, and you cannot do it without reading widely and carefully.

There appear to be many Chinese learners of English who have read a number of books on grammar and composition and done many exercises in correcting and improving sentences and yet cannot write even tolerable English. The trouble is that they may either not have read widely enough or not have read carefully enough or not have committed to memorize enough words, phrases and sentences that they may have found too easy to understand to be worth remembering.

He has yet to know many more words before he can master English. Nor can he master English till he has acquired a better understanding of most of the words that are in his vocabulary.

For he may think he knows a word when he does not really know it. By knowing a word I mean knowing its true sense or senses instead of merely knowing one or more of what we call its Han equivalents.

“读书是无用的，但是事关彼岸。”我赞同，
“‘一个人的阅读史，就是他的思想成长史’，我忘了是谁说的了。”

“不过不管怎样，至少还有书可以读。”我说。

“对！至少还有书。”

现在即是未来。佛陀在《金刚经》里说：“过去心不可得、现在心不可得，未来心不可得”。我认为面对未来的较好方式就是活在当下——因为不论是否愿意，未来，总是源源不断到来。

我们不是要去迎合变化，而是寻找到那个不变的。最终支撑人类的，将只有宗教，或者宽泛一点说，是“信仰”。