选自《盐铁论·孝养》。距：通“拒”。【大意】拒绝接受别人意见的视听闭塞，自己独断专行的就会遭到孤立。

翻译：事物发展到了极点，就要发生变化，发生变化，才会使事物的发展不受阻塞，事物才能不断的发展。

做决定是困难的，也因此益发珍贵

Everymorning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, although it cannot be established at the moment.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.