💬 Quotes

"It was a strange, sad thing to see the red man, who had once been the master of the plains, now huddled in the shadow of the white man’s fort."

"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it."

"The words of the white man are like the wind that blows over the grass, bending it first one way and then another, but leaving no mark."

"We were a people who lived in harmony with the land, but the land was taken from us, and with it, our way of life."

"I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young."

"激励机制是万物的根源，它解释了人们在各种情境下如何做出选择。"

"所谓的“专家”往往利用信息不对称来操纵人们，从而为自己谋取利益。"

"通过数据分析，我们可以揭示那些隐藏在表面现象之下的真实关联。"

"如果说有什么东西可以轻易改变世界，那就是犯罪率在90年代的惊人下降，而这很大程度上归功于罗诉韦德案。"

"从数据的角度看，父母的影响力远没有我们想象的那么大，天性与环境的影响远比育儿书籍来得深刻。"

"名字本身并不会决定一个人的命运，它只是一个社会经济地位的信号灯。"

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."

"Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's."

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings."

"Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation."

"History is not a ledger of facts, but a tapestry woven from the threads of what we choose to remember and what we are forced to forget."

"The magic was not a gift; it was a debt, and the interest was paid in the currency of one's own soul."

"Power is a mirror. It shows you exactly what you fear most about yourself."