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。

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

不幸的是,现实是,出于政治或其他原因,有必要执行反歧视法,或至少有必要这么做。

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

所以,作为人类,我们生活在一个非常不精确的世界里。在这个世界里,我们对现实的感知远比现实重要。