历史不仅仅是过去的故事，它也是现在的镜子和未来的窗口。
History is not just the story of the past, but a mirror to the present and a window to the future.
"A story is a way to say something that cannot be said any other way."
最伟大的知识是认清自己。
Understanding the past is essential for designing policies that can shape a better future.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
