"Doctors can be just like politicians," says Russell, "they're really smart and spend decades achieving their goals and then they turn around and do something incredibly stupid."

“医生可能就如政客一样，”罗素说，“他们非常聪明并且花费数十年的时间来达到他们的目标，可是然后他们就转身做一些令人难以置信的蠢事”。

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The trick behind finding the right information on the internet is knowing how to ask the right questions–something smart people do all the time.

一些聪明的人一直都在做的是发现互联网上的正确的信息的技巧是知道如何提出正确的问题。

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Although I'm not suggesting that you choose a career or trade you dislike, I've heard way too many smart people say something like, "in order to be great at what you do, you have to like what you do."

尽管我建议大家不要去选择自己不喜欢的事情或者行业，但我还是听不少聪明的人说譬如“为了在你所做的行业里强大起来，你必须先喜欢上你所做的事情”的话。

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With respect to Social Security, as I indicated earlier, making changes to these programs is so difficult that this may be an opportunity for us to go ahead and do something smart that strengthens Social Security and gives not just this generation but future generations the opportunity to say this thing is going to be in there for the long haul.

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It is something that is smart to do.

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And as we saw in California just last month, raising taxes is not something that a smart politician wants to do in a slowing, sagging, collapsing economy.

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