It is difficult to make oneself concentrate for long periods.

让自己长时间聚精会神是很困难的。

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There is always a person can make oneself feel very warm.

总有那么一个人可以让自己感觉特别温暖。

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Also can abreact through this kind of means oneself mood, make oneself more relaxed.

也可以通过这种方式发泄一下自己的情绪，使自己更轻松。

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That's the whole thing about being a kook,I mean, being willing to be a beginner, make a fool out of oneself once in a while."

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Later he came to see the ownership of such exalted things as "a nuisance" and the antiquarian enthusiasms they aroused as irrelevant: better to make them for oneself.

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Of interest though is that people in poorer countries who make downward social comparisons (comparing oneself to those who have even less vs. those who have more) are more satisfied with their lives than individuals making upward social comparisons.

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Some of my comrades in arms great financial advisers and bloggers are quick to note that merely calling oneself a fiduciary does not a fiduciary make.

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