心理过程是生活的工具，其价值在于它们的用途。

改变世界的唯一方法就是改变我们的思维方式。

唯一比思想的力量更伟大的是心灵的勇气。

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

过去半个世纪最重要的政治发展是自由民主在世界范围内的传播。

Modern quarrying requires us to be geologists, ecologists, and community diplomats simultaneously.