Get busy, give charity. It's a problem that never goes away, so you can never rest.

忙碌劳作，给予施舍，这是一个永远不会消失的问题,所以你永远没办法停歇。

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In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.

就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。

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