The true ruler is the person who both acts on his own interest and of course knows what those interests are.

真正的统治者,仅干对自身有利的事,而且知道有哪些利益对他有好处。

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But Russia itself has no worse loss for the United States right now could find ways to keep us so tight down in the Middle East for a decade that we could do nothing else.

俄罗斯现在还没有对美利益造成太大损害,有办法,让我们紧紧围绕在中东问题上,在十年内我们只有束手无策。

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The true ruler," he says "is one who is like a shepherd with a flock, but he rules not for the benefit of the flock but, of course, for his own interests, " the good of the shepherd."

他说：，“真正的统治者,是牧者，但规则不是要造福牲畜,而是他自身的利益，对牧者要有好处“

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All the groups that stand to win or lose from it are all figuring out what it does to them and they're taking the positions out of self-interest So, I wanted to write something that was more perspicacious if I could manage that.

所有人无论赞同或者不赞同这个改革,都试图搞清楚这个改革对他们将有什么影响,从自身利益来讲，想搞清楚他们究竟能得到什么,所以，如果我可以的话,我更希望我能写一些独具慧眼的东西。

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