And it is not for me to set myself up as the one person able to answer it.

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So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

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What may be the case that one person, some person who may exist in the future is the same person, is me.

我们讨论了，如果存在于将来的，某一个人，就是从前的一个人,就是我，那又会怎么样。

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What I would like you to do is to remember this and four years from now, when most of you are ready to graduate, if that one person in here would email me okay?! and let me know who it is, okay?

我希望你们,记得做的是四年后，当你们大部份人准备毕业时，那人能写封电邮,让我知道他／她的大名？

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What I found when I thought about the Methuselah case was, even though it was me at age 800, the same person as the one who's standing here in front of you now, ?" it didn't really matter. I said, "So what?"

当我思考Methuselah时，我想到的是，虽然八百岁时的我还是我，和现在站在你们面前的人,是同一个人，那已经无关紧张，我说了“那又怎样“

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