Worrying is an active, liberating activity. If channeled appropriately, it allows you to articulate the downside in any situation and drives you to take action to avoid it.
忧虑是一种积极的心理活动,可以开阔人的思路。如果能正确引导这一情绪,你就可以洞察任何形势下的负面风险,并采取行动规避这些风险。
Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
The most successful states in the 21st century will be those that can combine the efficiency of markets with the fairness of democratic institutions.
"I'm drawn to stories that have a kind of moral ambiguity, where the lines between right and wrong are blurred."