The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good.
我们的农民是这个行业的支柱；我们必须用技术和公平的政策来支持他们。
A good novel tells us the truth about its characters; a great novel tells us the truth about ourselves.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.