如果某件事足够重要，即使赌注对你不利，你仍然应该去做。

Nothing’s lost forever. In this world, there’s a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead.

We think not in isolated ideas, but in continuous streams of purpose-directed activity.

Literature is the art of the possible.

"If you don't change, you become extinct."

"The world is a game, and the game is a shadow."

The anarchic nature of the international system forces states to compete for power.