是印度给了我们表达所有数字的巧妙方法,通过十个符号,每个符号既有位置值也有绝对值。
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
我们总是在寻找答案,但有时问题本身就是答案。
"The stories we tell shape our reality, but they also have the power to trap us in illusions."
The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."
The power elite is composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women; they are in positions to make decisions having major consequences.