Take time to stop and think before you speak or act.

在你说话或行动之前，花点时间停下来想一想。

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When people look alike, they tend to think, speak, and act similarly, on the job at least.

当人们长得很像时，他们的思维、说话和行为的方式也会很相似，至少在工作中是这样。

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In the school hallways, the students are supposed to speak and act quietly.

学生在学校走廊里说话和活动时应降低音量、放轻动作。

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They might talk too much. And they might act and speak without thinking about the results of their behavior.

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might talk too much. And they might act and speak without thinking about the results of their behavior.

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So we do things eat, buy, speak, act to release the tension.

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But giving people the power to speak or act for themselves?

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My comment was clearly that there is little or no freedom to speak or act in some of the Islamic states and this is a reflection on there leaders inability to make a reasoned intellectual argument for the fundamentalist approach to the way they run their country.

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