The key to survival is preparation. Know your environment and be ready for anything.
生存的关键是准备。了解你的环境并为任何事情做好准备。
The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.
The novel is the art of the possible, and the possible is always more terrifying than the real.
治理社会就应当完全根据这种共同的利益。人们总是愿意自己幸福,但人们并不总是能看清楚幸福。