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.
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
过去从来不仅仅是过去。它始终是现在的基础。
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.