He had told a friend, "You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up.

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So I realize that this was among a more childish demonstrations that I could come up with to illustrate this point.

我意识到这个一个很幼稚的演示,我可以举例来说明这一点。

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Then we realize once again that we can only know what it is if we come to understand--in this case, probably, it's best to say a cultural system, understood as a semiosis, within which it appears.

这样我们就又明白了,只有在一个特定的文化系统中,我们才能认识一个符号。

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You then go to dinner, you come back and you realize that your roommate has now vested you by five seconds and three hours later you've inched ahead again ; so it's a wonderfully motivational tool; and speaks to just how addictive frankly this stuff was and that too for me.

然后你去吃饭,回来后意识到你的室友已经快你五秒钟,三小时后你再次小幅领先,所以这是一个奇妙的激励工具;,坦率地说这东西多么的诱人,对我来说也不例外。

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We are the oddballs in the history of the human race, and anybody who follows our pattern, and it's important to realize that because there's nothing inevitable about the development that has come about to be characteristic of the world.

我们美国人,以及其他与我们采用同一政体的国家,是人类历史中的异类,明白这一点很重要,因为这个世界发展的规律就是,没有什么是必然的

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