“故事不在文字中；它在斗争中。”
The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.
Leadership is about making the tough decisions and standing by them, even when they're unpopular.
Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."