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“Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.”
― Paulo Coelho

“可是我为什么没有呢？我从来没有认真地认为自己对他人来说是重要的？为什么我沉溺于一已悲喜，疏于与世界交接，且，耻于言爱？”
― Anonymous

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle

“柴静：我想，学习正如孔子所说， “知之者不如好之者，好之者不如乐之者”，有兴趣跟乐趣就已足够了，是不是”
― Anonymous

“If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History

“Since then the romances of chivalry had been superseded by the flowering of literature that we know as the Spanish Golden Age, and by Cervantes’s time nobody considered them to be a threat any more.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“I shall therefore discourse equally of both, convinced that human happiness never continues long in one stay.”
― Herodotus, The Histories: Introduction by Rosalind Thomas

“随着比特鲁谷的人口不断增长，毫无疑问，对生活用水的需求也大大提高。当地水论坛的协调人洛克沙·法兰建议大家，在建新房子时将水井挖得深一些，因为“插在奶昔里的吸管越来越多”。也就是说，位于同一含水层的水井越多，水位会因此下降。蒙大拿当地的法律和法规对生活用水的规制较少，一户人家新凿的水井可能会影响邻居家现有水井的水位，但后者很难获得赔偿。欲计算一个含水层所能提供的生活用水的数量，必须先勘探该含水层的范围，并测出其流量。然而，令人吃惊的是，比特鲁谷人略过了这两项最基本的步骤。拉法利郡没有监测含水层的资源，在审查建筑开发商的设计方案时，也没有对供水进行独立评估。反之，拉法利郡只是听信于开发商的一面之词，后者信誓旦旦地保证新建的房屋有足够的井水可供使用。”
― 贾雷德·戴蒙德(Jared Diamond), 崩溃：社会如何选择成败兴亡

“在我年轻时，同辈人都准备过上20年苦日子，如果幸运的话，晚年也许会宽裕些。现在的年轻人一早就想过好日子，谈到工作，第一个问题就是‘薪水多少？工作时间多长？有没有假期？’”每一个我认识的蒙大拿农民不是担忧自己的子女会不会继承祖业，就是已经确知他们不愿意做这份面朝黄土背朝天的工作。”
― 贾雷德·戴蒙德(Jared Diamond), 崩溃：社会如何选择成败兴亡

“复活节岛民推倒他们祖先的摩艾石像使我联想到政局崩溃时俄国人和罗马尼亚人推倒斯大林与齐奥塞斯库石像的情景，岛民们就像俄国人和罗马尼亚人那样，长期以来一定对他们的领导人心存怨恨。我不知道有多少石像像帕罗那样一个接一个地被部族敌人所推倒，也不知道它们中有多少被摧毁于突发的狂怒与不满之中。”
― 贾雷德·戴蒙德(Jared Diamond), 崩溃：社会如何选择成败兴亡

“几乎在世界的每个角落，我的那些搞考古学的朋友都在尽力说服政府了解考古学的实用价值。他们千方百计地想让提供科研经费的机构明白对过去社会命运的研究能帮助我们了解今天同一地区将会发生什么问题。而最重要的是，破坏生态环境的悲剧很可能在今日重演，所以我们应该运用历史知识以避免重蹈覆辙。 大多数政府都把考古学家的恳求当成耳边风，但冰岛则是例外。冰岛从1130年前就面临着土壤侵蚀的威胁，大部分植物和一半的土壤已经消失。关于中世纪岛民的生活方式和土壤形态目前还在研究之中。一位考古学家朋友联系上冰岛政府后开始大谈特谈考古学的作用，冰岛政府回应道：“是的，我们当然清楚了解中世纪的土壤侵蚀问题有助于解决今日的问题。我们对此深信无疑，你不用再花时间解释了。钱在这儿，拿去做研究吧。”
― 贾雷德·戴蒙德(Jared Diamond), 崩溃：社会如何选择成败兴亡

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”
― Mother Teresa

“Swish and flick.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.”
― Brian Jacques, Taggerung

“A six mile meteorite cannot compare with a culinary cataclysm of this magnitude.”
― Michelle Franklin

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
― Albert Einstein

“Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.”
― Martha Gellhorn

“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.

Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems