Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
真相比小说更加荒诞,因为虚构是在一定逻辑下进行的,而现实往往毫无逻辑可言。
善于治理国家的人们, 一定会十分注重人民的力量。
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible. There are simply too many random factors: accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc. We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.