Sometimes you have no choice other than to fight, but fighting is not a good long-term strategy. Because whatever you fight against almost always grows stronger. 有时候，除了战斗，你别无选择，但战斗并不是一个好的长期战略。因为与你对抗的东西几乎总是会变得更加强大。

What is a good long-term strategy? Building a more desirable alternative. 什么是好的长期战略？建设一个更理想的替代方案。

Working in favor of a specific outcome is always more effective than fighting against its opposition. And whenever there’s something to fight against, there’s always a cause to work in favor of. 为某一特定结果而努力，总是比反对它更有效。只要有反对的声音，就一定有支持的事业。

Many factors pose a threat to all that makes life good. You can never hope to eliminate all those threats. 许多因素对生活的一切构成威胁。你永远无法指望消除所有这些威胁。

What you can do is work to make the good things in life more robust, more enduring, more sustainable and preferable. You cannot prevent all falsehoods, yet there’s no need to do so when the truth is compelling, accessible and self-evident enough. 你能做的，就是努力让生活中的美好事物变得更强大、更持久、更可持续、更可取。你无法阻止所有的谬误，但当真相足够令人信服、触手可及、不言而喻时，也就没有必要这样做了。

Invest yourself in what’s good, not in tearing down what’s bad. With sufficient goodness, negativity can crumble into dust. 将自己投入到美好的事物中去，而不是去摧毁那些不好的事物。只要有足够的善意，消极就会化为灰烬。

— Ralph Marston - 拉尔夫-马斯顿