The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

建议的力量在塑造人类行为方面是巨大的，往往个体并没有意识到这种影响。

我很久以前就决定不活在别人的阴影里；如果我失败了，或者成功了，至少我是按照自己的信念去做的。

滚动的弹丸，掉落到凹陷之处，便不再滚动了；流传的谣言，到智慧的人那里，便不再流传了。