Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

生活就是一系列与未来之间的碰撞；它不是我们过去曾经是什么的总和，而是我们将来想要成为什么的总和。

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To sum up, we are able to make some tentative plans about the future, all because the flexibility built into the iterative process allows us some deviation from the original plan.

总之，我们能够制定一些未来的试验性计划，所有都是因为构建于迭代过程中的灵活性允许我们适当地偏离原来的计划。

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He found those with a lower base level of the hormone tended to prefer immediate payment, even when the sum in question was piffling compared with the promised future compensation.

他发现那些具有更低水平糖皮质激素的人倾向于选择即时报酬，即使即时报酬数目和未来承诺的补偿相比微不足道，结果也是这样。

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The value of any such asset (real estate, stock share, or bond) is the sum of the future stream of cash flow or benefits, discounted by the interest rate.

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The net present value of any economic project is the sum of its discounted future cash flows.

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In addition, because bidders will be prepared to pay a sum equal to the future profits that they expect to receive from the assets, auctions are theoretically the same as a 100% tax on monopoly rent ie, profits in excess of the cost of capital.

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