If a good culture in the society can be formed in which unity, friendliness, reciprocity and hard working is prevailed, poverty will collapse of itself.

如果整个社会形成良好的社会风尚：团结、友爱、互助、奋进，贫困也就不攻自破了。

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Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization.

现在，第三个也是更重要的动机出现了：为了防止我们文明的崩溃，这些目标可能是必须要实现的。

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But the quintessential gold bug is an investor who expects every form of paper wealth to collapse, along with civilisation itself.

但是作为投资人——典型的黄金热徒们，他们只是希望任何形式的纸上财富全部崩溃，同时崩溃的还有文明本身。

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I thought the University positioned itself well to take advantage of this really not surprising collapse in housing prices.

我认为耶鲁摆正了自己的位置,妥善利用了,这次并不突然的房价崩溃

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