In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

The true measure of aquaculture success isn't just in tonnes produced, but in habitats preserved.

政府解决问题的方式通常和问题本身一样糟糕。

译文：别人的话不可全信，一定要理性的分析和判断是否属实；遇到事情不可仓促去做，一定要三思而后行，分析是否合情合理，然后才能付诸行动。赏析：常言道，尽信书不如无书。这句话放在为人处世上也有借鉴意义。不管别人对某事某人说好或是歹，我们都不能随声附和，人云亦云，要有自己的分析判断。做事如果鲁莽行事，不懂得冷静思考，往往会招致大祸。

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.