Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

仓库里没有储备的谷物，不可以应付凶饥之年；兵库不准备兵器，没有足够的实力，即使站在正义的一方也无法征讨无义之人，实力是维护正义的强有力的保障；城郭防守不完全，则不能守护自己；没有居安思危的心理，不可应付突发事件。

创新是煤炭行业未来的关键，我们必须拥抱新技术和新理念。

Stay hungry, stay foolish, but always stay true to yourself.