任何地方的任何人，只要有机会，就会绽放出百种意想不到的才能和能力。

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

所有严肃的艺术都试图理解这个世界。

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.