Sat, Jul 10, 2027

冬，十月，己酉，下詔稱：「王皇后、蕭淑妃謀行鴆毒，廢為庶人，母及兄弟，並除名，流嶺南。」許敬宗奏：「故特進贈司空王仁祐告身尚存，使逆亂餘孽猶得為廕，並請除削。」從之。

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卷200·高宗天皇大聖大弘孝皇帝上之下永徽六年（乙卯，公元六五五年）·第1则

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高昌王文泰聞唐兵起，謂其國人曰：「唐去我七千里，沙磧居其二千里，地無水草，寒風如刀，熱風如燒，安能致大軍乎！往吾入朝，見秦、隴之北，城邑蕭條，非復有隋之比。今來伐我，發兵多則糧運不給；三萬已下，吾力能制之。當以逸待勞，坐收其弊。若頓兵城下，不過二十日，食盡必走，然後從而虜之。何足憂也！」及聞唐兵臨磧口，憂懼不知所為，發疾卒，子智盛立。

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卷195·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝中之上貞觀十四年（庚子，公元六四零年）·第10则

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As I’ve emphasized many times, Charlie and I view Berkshire’s holdings of marketable stocks – at yearend worth $281 billion – as a collection of businesses. We don’t control the operations of those companies, but we do share proportionately in their long-term prosperity. From an accounting standpoint, however, our portion of their earnings is not included in Berkshire’s income. Instead, only what these investees pay us in dividends is recorded on our books. Under GAAP, the huge sums that investees retain on our behalf become invisible.

Source： https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2020ltr.pdf
2020 Chairman's Letter, excerpt 4

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The net result of the application of these principles is the reduction of the necessity for thought on the part of the worker and the reduction of his movements to a minimum. He does as nearly as possible only one thing with only one movement. The assembling of the chassis is, from the point of view of the non-mechanical mind, our most interesting and perhaps best known operation, and at one time it was an exceedingly important operation. We now ship out the parts for assembly at the point of distribution.

Source： https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213
Chapter V, excerpt 52

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It would be surprising if in an organization which included a great number of men there should not be an occasional employee here and there who acted, in connection with the business or perhaps in conducting his own affairs, in a way which might be criticized. Even in a comparatively small organization it is wellnigh impossible to restrain this occasional man who is over-zealous for his own or his company's advancement. To judge the character of all the members of a great organization or the organization itself by the actions of a few individuals would be manifestly unfair.

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Chapter III, excerpt 49

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