I keep my mind active and coming to school three times a week, and walking up and down the steps, that kept me physically able."

VOA: special.2010.07.16

My parents thought I'd lost my mind to drop out of Stanford Business School to go join some company that made software.

我父母认为我从斯坦福商学院,辍学去一家软件公司工作根本是疯了。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Yes. Okay. Sometimes I do get students who have just an image of this novel in their mind, or they read it when they were in high school and have a sort of irrational, passionate love for it.

好的，有时候我的确会有一些学生,他们脑子里有一个这部小说的形象，或者在高中里读过,对之有一股毫无理由的热爱。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"The purpose of the awards was to give those high school students who demonstrate superior talent and achievement in things of the spirit and of the mind at least a fraction of the honors and rewards accorded to their athletic classmates for demonstrating their bodily skills."

VOA: special.2011.05.27

(SCHOOL BELL RINGING) Port Angeles? You mind if I come?

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