Having a disability, people still look at you weird, but it's like, 'Alright.He's got a disability, but it's kind of okay now.'" Life for people with disabilities has improved greatly since Bobbi Wailes was stricken with polio as a 12-year-old, before the vaccine became available in the 1950s.

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In Ruxton's Life in the Far West there's an Indian who gets red all over blushing because he got so many scalps and he runs like hell into the plains to glory over his deeds in hiding.

在《卢克斯顿的生活》里在美国中西部有一个印第安人,他因为得了太多头皮而全身涨得通红,拼命跑到草原里来藏起他的荣誉。

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He got talented, respected members of the community who people admired to become life insurance salesmen and he had to pay them enough so that they would stick with the job; then it finally worked.

他将社区中那些具有天赋且受人欢迎的人,聘为寿险推销员,并且通过高薪来激励他们坚守岗位,这个策略最终成功了

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When Plato asked himself how could that be, the answer he gave is, well, it's got to be we were previous acquainted with the forms before our life in this world, and that shows that the soul must be something that existed prior to the creation of the body.

柏拉图问自己这究竟是怎么回事，他给出的答案是,我们有生命以前就,已经熟悉了这些形式，这就表明灵魂是在,身体存在之前就已经具有的了。

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