The real world is the most abstract thing of all.
真实世界是最抽象的东西。
The arts are a way of making sense of the world.
Opera is a way of living life to the fullest, a way of expressing emotions that cannot be expressed in any other way.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Modern quarrying must marry the wisdom of geology with the innovation of engineering.
The spread of liberal democracy around the world is not inevitable, but it is the most likely outcome.