Middle-aged women must keep a clear head instead of doing things out of willfulness.

人到中年的女性，需要清醒，而不能一厢情愿。

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It was that way with everything: instead of doing things for me, or excusing me, my mother insisted I find a way to do them myself.

做什么事都这样：我妈妈从不替我干，也不放任我，坚持要我自己设法去做。

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TV planning should do the "right" thing instead of doing things "rightly". The very competitiveness of TV programs lies in the narrative ability of TV, namely, telling stories.

电视策划要做“正确的”事，不要“正确地”做事，电视节目的核心竞争力是电视叙事的能力，电视叙事就是讲故事。

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Instead,we proved we are still a people capable of doing big things."

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Unlike the initial Jobs era, Apple had become a company that tried to do too much instead of doing a few things well.

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And one of those, just as an example, is to go back and place more day-to-day accountability and responsibility on the inmates instead of us just doing things for them.

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"At the end of the night instead of doing all the fast things that fellows did then, he gave me a kiss on the forehead, " Elizabeth Edwards said.

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