So if the landscape invites him to grow as an imaginative person, the social world he lives in, this episode signals to us immediately, will never live up to that imagination.

假如生活氛围使他,成为一个充满想像力的人，那么他所处的社会就是这一时期，这会让我们马上感到，那种想象永不可能成真。

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So, the optimal thing to do if you live in a world like this n is to get n as large possible and you can reduce the standard deviation of the portfolio very much and there's no cost in terms of expected return.

如果现实中也这样简单的话,那么你就尽量增大,这样就能让投资组合的标准差,就会大大降低,从预期收益率的角度来看,这样做的成本是零。

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I only wanted to live in the world of, as J. M. Cootsy has beautifully said, "We all come into this world carrying the memory of justice."

我只想我生活的世界，正如J。，M。，Cootsy以很美的文字形容的，“我们呱呱坠地时,都富有正义的思想“

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