The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease; the happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
沃森先生,请过来!我有事找你!——出处:1876年3月10日,贝尔第一次通过他发明的电话在寝室向在实验室里的助手沃森说的一句话。
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.