如果有人告诉你，他将做一个“很现实的决定”，你立刻就要明白，他已经打算好做错事了。

The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.

The rule of law is a necessary condition for the development of a modern economy.

"Writing about the past is a way of making sense of the present and imagining a different future."