我们大多数人生活在一种消极状态中，并且我们认为某个人或某些东西会改变我们的生活并拯救我们，那不是一种你该有的健康心态。

Most of us a are living in a passive state and we think that someone or something will change our life and save us, which is not a healthy mindset to carry around with you.

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If you were to say to me, what do you think is the most important thing, however you define thing, that has changed the character of life in the United States in the twentieth century, I would say the disappearance of farmers.

如果你问我,我认为什么才是,最重要的东西,你认为是什么,在二十世纪改变了,美国人的生活方式,我会说是农民退出了历史舞台

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