She was very independent and not afraid to express her thoughts and opinions.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

The text into which any early modern seventeenth-century writer would jot his or her thoughts into, his reading notes, was always called a commonplace book.

他的阅读笔记,那是许多早期的十七世纪现代作家都会深深思考的笔记，它常常被称为一本普通的书。

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It ought to mean "to go forward" with everything behind it, but needless to say her thoughts on the subject were never implemented because if one day red light means "stop" and the next day red light means "go," there might be a few problems.

它因该表示勇往直前，当然她的想法没有实现,因为如果红灯今天表示停,明天表示走，会天下大乱的。

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And she was very independent in her thoughts and actions.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

The title comes from one of her thoughts during this time: "These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent that happened after I was gone."

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

More than one hundred years after her birth, Ayn Rand's books,thoughts, and actions continue to be important to many people.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

I'll keep her safe, Edward. - Can you keep your thoughts to yourself?- Yes.

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