So we ask very limited questions, which is why we brag about how accurately we can predict the future.

我们研究的问题是非常有限的,正因如此我们才敢自豪地说,我们能非常精确地预测未来

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This is maybe not widely appreciated, but every decade that goes by we do a better job of incentvizing people and preventing them from being discouraged by risks.

也许在当下，一些措施看似并非有效，但若以十年跨度回望,我们所采取的措施确实能有效地激励人们,并且防止他们因风险受挫。

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Every regime is an answer to that question because every regime sets forward a way of distributing formally distributing powers and distributing offices among its citizen body.

每一个政体都是这问题的答案，因,为每一个政体提出了一种分配的方式,正式地分配权力,并将官职分配给其公民本体。

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So don't be tempted--Moses later warns the Israelites -don't be tempted to say to yourselves , "My own power and the might of my own hand have won this wealth for me," or again, to say in Deuteronomy 9:4, "The Lord has enabled us to possess this land because of our virtues."

不要被引诱，摩西后来警告以色列人,不要擅自妄称，凭借我的力量，我的能力,我得到了这货财，《申命记》第9章4节中又说，耶和华将我领进来得这地是因我的义“

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