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Chinese term or phrase:
天下攘攘皆为利来，天下熙熙皆为利往。
English translation:
Jostling and joyous, |The whole world comes for profit;|After profit the whole world goes!
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Apr 18, 2010 03:11: Adsion Liu changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1122239">David Tugwell's</a> old entry - "天下攘攘皆为利来，天下熙熙皆为利往。"" to ""See below.""
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See below.
Jostling and joyous,
The whole world comes after profit;
Racing and rioting,
After profit the whole world goes!
原文出自史記貨殖列傳，以上是Burton Watson 的翻譯。可以到圖書館找來參考：Records of the grand historian of China / translated from the Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ie by Burton Watson New York : Columbia University Press, 1971
The whole world comes after profit;
Racing and rioting,
After profit the whole world goes!
原文出自史記貨殖列傳，以上是Burton Watson 的翻譯。可以到圖書館找來參考：Records of the grand historian of China / translated from the Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ie by Burton Watson New York : Columbia University Press, 1971
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