现代国家是欧洲经验的产物。
The modern state is a product of the European experience.
Friends are better than money. Almost anything money can do， friends can do better. In so many ways a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
最好的政策是那些将经济激励与生态健康相结合的政策。
The only thing more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose is a man with everything to gain.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.