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The World is a Finer Place Because of You. ------Oscar Wilde
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J.K. Rowling delivers her Commencement Address at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.What touches me most is as following..
…So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.…You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.…If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
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And, will this world be a finer place because of me?
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2008-06-28达利和作业
基本上，这能表达我对已经写了三天的这篇作业的感受，非常郁闷。抓肉去。
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2008-06-28过期
下午睡一觉起来做香蕉牛奶，发现冰箱里一盒还没开的牛奶刚巧过期了1天，犹豫了一下，考虑到现在牛奶涨价的速度已经到了令人发指的地步，决定还是用掉它以泄愤。但心理又不放心，打开先尝了一小口，确定毫无异样，于是放心享用，足够了全家一个下午的冰饮。
边享用着美味，边忽然地就想到一个问题：是什么决定了这盒明明还活力四射的牛奶在大部分情况下（比如还没有涨价的时候……），还没经过谁的嘴巴甚至鼻子的验证，就必须化作流水了呢？
是印在上面的保质期吧！保质期是个什么东西呢，是谁规定了东西必须有个保质期呢？是谁让我们觉得，哪怕过了保质期一天，它就该被报废了呢？在这里，日期充其量只是一个经验值吧：每滴牛奶从它妈身上被挤出来，最后到你的胃里被消耗掉，流淌过的道路千差万别，每家超市的冰箱不同、每家人家的冰箱也不同。
而懒惰、保守如我们，却几乎不需要经过任何的亲身体验，仅仅对照着保质期，就决定了牛奶、凤梨罐头，所有东西的命运，关键就是：哪怕只是差那么一天，心理也总有些小疙瘩。想想还是可怕，作为意识形态的科技，如此轻易地就能在身边找到注脚，以前却丝毫没觉得，大概还为自己可以喝到最新鲜最及时的牛奶雀跃不已。
发现一个意外的事情，以前牛奶盒上的保质期都是7天的，现在居然变成了5天。难道我们的技术退步了吗？
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2008-06-20心有戚戚
因为做论文，开始查一些事实，或者可能的、已经被删除的事实。心有戚戚焉。
很多事情是禁不起追问的，否则，未免残忍。如果要找温情，最好关了脑子看新闻。
天灾还是人祸？想想为什么林毅夫坚持把三年叫做“饥荒”，而不是“自然灾害”，道理其实也是一样的。不要去吵是自由还是保守，先听人家讲道理。
别说我什么都不知道，拜这个时代伟大的技术所赐，但凡有心，可以知道很多。百度快照绝对是催生民主的力量，之一。
借助它，我又看到些东西。我开始愤怒了。我这个人不容易激动的。
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