Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, "At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!"
We must adapt to changing markets while staying true to our core values.
世界可能是卑鄙的,但人们不必如此,如果他们拒绝的话。
我读一本无聊的书睡着了,梦见我继续读着,所以我因纯粹的厌倦而醒来。
The documenta is a mirror held up to the art world.