Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
人们自己创造自己的历史,但是他们并不是随心所欲地创造,并不是在他们自己选定的条件下创造,而是在直接碰到的、既定的、从过去承继下来的条件下创造。
如果不衡量影响,我们只是在猜测可持续性。
我们都被自己的叙述所困。
"I am a warrior, not a worrier."
Angry people are not always wise.
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.