The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.
这些墙很有趣。刚入狱的时候,你痛恨周围的高墙;慢慢地,你习惯了生活在其中;最终你会发现自己不得不依靠它而生存。这就叫体制化。
自信是关键,但傲慢会毁了你。
美好的生活不是没有悲伤,而是在痛苦中能促进我们成长的生活。
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.