任何重复性活动（如惩罚犯罪或葬礼仪式）的功能，在于它在整体社会生活中扮演的角色，从而对维持结构连续性所做的贡献。

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

经验的直接内容是我们唯一可以知道的现实。

The older I get， the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first—a process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

未说出的往往比说出的更有力量。

You have to believe in your dreams before they can come true.

We are all potential fossils waiting to be uncovered.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.