I am not against quantitative metrics, but I question their authority as the main indicators of business performance, prosperous societies, and meaningful lives.

我不反对定量的测量方法，但我质疑它们作为商业表现、社会繁荣和生活意义等重要指标的权威性。

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We want to stress our belief that creative societies and countries like yours will constitute the crux for a profound change toward a more stable, just and prosperous world.

我们坚信那些如同你们的国家一样具有创造力的社会和国家，将是推动我们迈向一个更加稳定、正义和繁荣的世界，迈向这一巨变的关键力量。

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We strongly believe societies which allow the free expression of ideas tend to be the most prosperous and the most peaceful.

我们深信，允许自由表达思想的社会往往最繁荣也最和平。

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It rankles a bit to hear such a marvellous explanation of the forces that created the mid-Atlantic rift that bisects Iceland on the Thingvellir plain near Reykjavik, but no hint that Europe's first parliament, the foundation of one of the most prosperous and democratic societies on earth, met just over a thousand years ago on that exact same spot.

ECONOMIST: Island life

Culture holds the potential to make our societies more resilient and prosperous.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

So, too, is the phase when oil wealth alone could make and keep the region prosperous, as well as insulate Gulf societies from the buffeting winds of globalisation.

ECONOMIST: Time travellers