Every building is a compromise between dreams and reality.

我们今天做出的每一个决定都会在未来几十年对整个海洋生态系统产生影响。

I don’t take no for an answer.

"Memory is both our prison and our only path to freedom." 《记忆的囚徒》

This is a group with many gifts. I'm sure one of your gifts is the gift of a smart and capable brain. I'm confident that's the case because admission is competitive and if there weren't some signs that you're clever， the dean of admission wouldn't have let you in.

Literature is the memory of humanity, and without it we are nothing.