Every story is a lie until someone believes it.

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

——温铁军2002年6月温铁军在清华大学的一次讲座

我们都在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。

"The world was hers for the reading."

The will to learn is an intrinsic motive, one that finds both its source and its reward in its own exercise.

Other holidays repose upon the past; Arbor Day proposes for the future.