Nathanson建议投资者把重心放在前者身上。

He suggests investors focus on the former.

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在1990年代的后期，德国的房屋均价是法国的两倍；而现在前者比后者便宜了20%。

In the late 1990s the average house price in Germany was twice that in France; now it is 20% cheaper.

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88%的受资助者无论被资助与否都上得起大学，而那12%的人则不然，因此研究所估算在后者身上节省的金额(在社会福利方面)是多过在前者身上浪费的金额的。

It calculated that the money wasted on the 88% of recipients who would have attended college anyway was outweighed by the savings made (in welfare benefits) on the 12% who wouldn't have.

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Similarly,had we had somebody with Napoleon's personality in New York and nobody with the personality in Michigan, that guy would have been Napoleon, because we would have had the same personality with no branching,with no competitor.

同样地，假如在纽约出现拥有拿破仑人格的人,而在密西根没有出现，那么前者将是拿破仑，因为在相同的人格下，不存在分支和竞争者。

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