And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

当公共领域被剥夺批判功能时，民主开始失败，政治生活变得贫瘠。

真相并不总是美丽的，美丽的言辞也未必是真相。

Mental processes are biological tools for survival.