The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers' goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates.

All the texts say that in order to gain release one should render the mind quiescent; therefore their conclusive teaching is that the mind should be rendered quiescent; once this has been understood there is no need for endless reading.

I don't need a reason to be confident.

I think the most important thing is to be true to yourself.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.

洛丽塔，我生命之光，我欲念之火。我的罪恶，我的灵魂。洛一丽一塔。

真相很少是纯粹的，也从不简单。

成功验证的关键是从系统应该做什么的清晰和精确的规范开始。