What I saw before me was a human being, and I knew that in a different life-course, it could have been me on the other side of the glass.

在我面前，我看到的是一个人，我知道，在这片玻璃的后面是一段与众不同的人生。

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In the 1860s, Tolstoy tried a different way to find the meaning of life.

在19世纪60年代，托尔斯泰尝试了一种不同的方式去寻找生命的意义。

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For a believer, replies to all the questions about life and work are far different because he trusts in God.

对一个信徒来说，对所有生活和工作问题的回答是大不一样的，因为他相信上帝。

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Then, he finished a study program in non-profit management because he wanted to do something different with his life.

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Yeah it goes back to a long time in my life, but most immediately to my own graduate career, which I went to several different schools.

这说来话长了，就近而言，这跟我所任职的研究生院有关，我在不同的大学任职。

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I know I've done that in my life and so I think it gives a different perspective on finance.

我就做过这样的事情,我认为,这也给我们提供了审视金融的另一个角度

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If I could come back again in a different life, a different time and all, you know what?

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Elsewhere, in the Cesar Chavez Building, graduate student Francisco Baires sits in a windowless office that could have been a closet in a previous life, immersed in a different kind of work: He is sending a statement condemning Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law to the media and other opponents of Senate Bill 1070.

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He lived a different kind of life in a different world.

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