Progress is not inevitable; it is the result of deliberate choices and actions.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

不管你是圣人还是罪人，我还是会做我自己。

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.

"Every story is a fragment of the universe trying to explain itself."

文化唯物主义基于一个简单的前提，即人类社会生活是对地球生存实际问题的回应。