Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

  • -- Victor Davis Hanson 维克托·戴维斯·汉森

通常,发动战争的借口不是土地、食物或燃料的真正短缺,而是感知——比如恐惧、荣誉和感知到的利己主义。

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Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

为你自己而写,而不是为你的听众而写。如果你这样做了,你就会一败涂地,因为你无法判断人们想要什么。你必须阅读。这就是你如何学习什么是好的写作,什么是坏的。然后主要是应用。这是艰苦的工作。

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

重大的社会运动最终会淡出人们的视野,不是因为它们已经减少,而是因为它们已经成为我们的感知和经验的一个永久组成部分。

I think perception is important.

我认为感知很重要。