What we think of as a career isn't simply the benign product of the gradual development of a certain potential.

我们认为的事业不是简简单单的,某种可能性逐渐发展的良性产物。

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It might be sort of interesting, but it wouldn't tell us something deep about the nature of death, if people could just as easily die on Tuesday.

这也许有趣，但并不能告诉人们关于死亡本质的深刻道理，如果人们就简简单单都死在周二。

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