The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model.

每一次创造的行为首先是一种破坏的行为。

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day， and underestimate what we can achieve in a decade. Miraculous things can be accomplished if you give it ten years. A long game will compound small gains to overcome even big mistakes.

经济景观是一个由不同等级的中心地组成的系统，每个中心地为特定区域服务。

死者虽不可见，但他们并未缺席。