The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.

Internal mental events are irrelevant to the scientific study of behavior.

创新不是一种选择；它是煤炭行业生存的必要条件。

The world is not dialectical—it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis.