Life is supercomplicated, and if you’re a Type A person, you want containment, to have, you know, control, whether it’s an illusion or reality.

The delegates at this First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party resolved to fight alone, without attempting to make any alliance with Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang.

If that were all, for some have swore / As false as they, if th' did no more[…]

Citizenship in the original Greek concept was not simply the granting of rights to do as one pleased; it also demanded a commitment to serve the interests of the many via personal sacrifice.