Grain isn't just a commodity; it's the foundation of civilization.
A statement is a means to convey information, a promise is a means to make a commitment.
预测未来的最好方法就是发明它。
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ― George Eliot, Middlemarch