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.
消灭一个民族的第一步是抹去它的记忆。摧毁它的书籍,它的文化,它的历史。然后让某人写新书,制造新文化,发明新历史。不久之后,这个民族就会开始忘记它是什么以及它曾经是什么。
自由是思想的果实。
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
A society that does not value its intellectuals is doomed to fail.
我相信粉色。
相信世界的秘密永远隐藏的人生活在神秘和恐惧中。迷信会把他拖垮。雨水会侵蚀他一生的行为。但是那个给自己定下任务,从挂毯中挑出秩序之线的人,仅凭这个决定就已经掌控了世界,而只有通过这样的掌控,他才能找到一种方法来支配自己命运的条件。
我本人是个乐观主义者,因为做别的貌似没什么用。
从某种意义上说,共同基金行业是建立在巫术之上的。
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."