The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
世界的进步，部分依赖于那些未被历史记载的行为；你我如今的处境还不至于太糟，有一半要归功于那些默默无闻、忠诚生活，并长眠于无人祭扫的坟墓中的人们。
唯一不可能的事情是你没有尝试的事情。
The best biographies are those that make the reader feel they have met the subject in person.
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
"El verdadero viaje no es buscar nuevos paisajes, sino tener nuevos ojos."
每一个边界都意味着维持它的暴力。
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
大脑是一个经过自然选择的信息处理器。
The power elite is composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women; they are in positions to make decisions having major consequences.
