历史总是个人的。

译文：上天虽有好生之德，也难以拯救一心求死的人，人能造福行善，就是避免灾祸的大功德。赏析：人生最大的悲哀莫过于内心已死，失去了斗志。失败不可怕，我们要善于在失败中重整旗鼓，继续向前。人多做好事，就是种善因，那么必将结善果。

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

我热爱进步的过程。