The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe.

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.

The biggest lie we tell ourselves is “I don‘t need to write this down because I will remember it.”

过去是一个跟随我们的影子，总是存在，总是影响。