每一条边界都是虚构的，先在脑海中划定，然后才在大地上留下伤痕。

The bond market is the ultimate barometer of market expectations.

The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies that did without it, that had no notion of the state or state power. At a certain stage of economic development, which was necessarily bound up with the split of society into classes, the state became a necessity.

释义：在探究事物的道理和实践中，要像在独处时一样谨慎自律，时刻保持警惕、戒备，防止自己的所思所为有不符合天道良知的事情，通过对私欲的严防死守和克除，实现致良知和修身的目的。

在观察的领域里，机遇只青睐有准备的头脑。

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

"The act of writing is an act of resistance against the chaos of existence."

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space； everything else is opinion.

I don't want to be a king; I want to be a god.

我倾向于认为相机比人眼更真实。