The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.
我们所要做的就是记住要勇敢。
如果一个国家期望在国民无知的情况下却拥有自由，那么这种期望无论在历史上，还是未来都绝不会实现。如果我们打算抵御无知和捍卫自由，每位美国人都有责任了解一件公共事务的来龙去脉。
The true cost of plastic isn't in its production—it's in its afterlife.
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.