The truth about the world is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is. A hat trick in a medicine show. A fevered dream. A trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent. An itinerant carnival. A migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
世界的真相是任何事情都可能发生。若非你从出生起就见惯了这一切,从而消解了它的怪异,它就会向你展现其本来面目。一场药铺里的戏法。一场高烧的梦。一场充斥着既无先例也无类比的奇美拉的恍惚。一场巡回的嘉年华。一场迁徙的帐篷秀,在许多泥泞的场地搭台后,其最终目的地是无法言说且灾难性得超乎想象的。
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
真正的美国发现还在我们面前。我们精神、我们人民、我们强大而不朽的土地的真正实现尚未到来。
子贡说:“贫穷却不阿谀奉承,富贵却不狂妄自大,怎样?”孔子说:“可以。不如穷得有志气,富得有涵养的人。”子贡说:“修养的完善,如同玉器的加工:切了再磋,琢了再磨,对吧?”孔子说:“子贡啊,现在可以与你谈诗了。说到过去,你就知道未来。”
一生中成功投资所需的就是几个大赢家,这些赢家的收益将远远超过那些不成功的股票的损失。
在一个乐队里的想法是成为帮派的一部分。
资源领域的真正领导力意味着在当下取得成果的同时要看到几十年后的未来。
透明报告我们的环境影响不仅是良好做法 - 更是我们对利益相关者的义务。