The ability to associate depends, in turn, on the degree to which communities share norms and values and are able to subordinate individual interests to those of larger groups.

命运是由那些不屈服于命运的人改变的。

如果剑很短而笔很锋利，那么笔就比剑更有力量。

我们进步的考验不在于我们为那些拥有很多的人增添更多，而在于我们是否为那些拥有太少的人提供足够。

The uniform， constant， and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition， the principle from which public and national as well as private opulence is originally derived.

"The past is a shadow that follows us, but it is the light ahead that guides our steps."

I write to make sense of the world, to give it a shape, a form.