The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.

晏子春秋

You can do anything you set your mind to, man.

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions” that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

故事的力量在于它能将我们与他人连接起来。