The only way to live is to accept the unacceptable.

史记

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.