The spread of liberal democracy around the world is not inevitable, but it is the most likely outcome of the process of modernization.
债券市场是价值的最终评判者。
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation.
The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.