To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.

The leather industry must evolve or risk becoming obsolete.

You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.

简单是终极的复杂。

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.

当我们和他人交谈时，要特别留意，因为这时正是人家对我们“评价”的时候。

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