If you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, you've got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

仪式过程是一种转变性的体验，将个体从一个社会地位转移到另一个社会地位。

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long.  

The pursuit of happiness is not about chasing after pleasure but about cultivating meaning.