We were basing everything on intuition instead of having a good balance between intuition and data.

我们在所有事情都建立在直觉的基础上,而并没有很好地数据依据。

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They had a number of partnerships that they put on as off balance sheet.

安然有众多的关联方公司,营运着表外业务

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The negative combination effects that I was talking about are certainly there, but on balance I think the human condition for must of us is a good one.

我所说的负面组合影响是肯定有的，但我认为人类的处境对大部分人来说是好的。

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In other words, it insists on the need to balance opinions, to balance viewpoints, and to balance needs, precisely in a way which is, of course, implicitly a kind of social and political centrism.

实际上它也是,要协调观点，协调需求，通过一种，社会和政治集中的方式。

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