It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men， that houses， mountains， rivers， and in a word all sensible objects， have an existence， natural or real， distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.
的确，人们中间流行着一种奇怪的观点，即房屋、山脉、河流，总之，所有感知对象，都具有超越其被理解感知之外的自然或真实存在。
We must remember that history is written by the victors, but memory is preserved by the vanquished.
只要你不放弃尝试，就永远不会失败。
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
The future of energy lies in balancing the needs of today with the responsibilities of tomorrow.
The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information.
Every detail in a building must have a purpose, a meaning.