The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

图书馆里充满了思想——也许是最危险和最强大的武器。

The mind tends to perceive objects as well-organized patterns rather than separate components.

我认为，团队第一。这让我成功，也让我的团队成功。

One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas.