Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

"I do not believe in happy endings, because life does not offer them."

I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory.

海洋是未来的粮仓，我们要用科技的力量让渔业可持续发展。

A proof of a proposition is a process the nature of which is such as to produce in us a belief in that proposition.

所以从前的贤君按照农事来生财,巩固根本并节约用度,财务自然就丰足了。

We are all born with a certain inheritance of time, and we must learn to spend it wisely.