我们生活在一个过去总是存在，未来总是不确定的世界中。

The power elite is composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women; they are in positions to make decisions having major consequences.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

在这里，没有人的知识能超越他的经验。