股市极大地分散了投资业务的注意力。

The quest for a unified theory of physics is one of the greatest intellectual adventures of our time.

Writing is a way of life, a way of being in the world.

Success is not about being the biggest, but about making the biggest difference.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

解释：过去和现在风俗不同，为什么一定要效仿古代？