The great powers are always searching for opportunities to gain power at the expense of their rivals, which makes them inherently aggressive.

I'm the reason your gravity won't pull.

南怀瑾：世间法不空，与般若有挂碍，等于眼中有沙，认生死轮回为实有；出世间法不空，与般若亦有挂碍，等于肉中有刺，认化城为宝所；故有凡夫生死、二乘涅盘的颠倒梦想。

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.