"If you do not set deadlines in this town, things do not happen.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

There are more things, which I won't reveal, that happen at the end of the novel to do with this.

与此相关的还有其他的事，不过我现在不会和你们说，因为它们在小说的最后才会出现。

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But once you get into a situation, it complicates, you see things. How do that happen for you?

但一旦你到了一个环境中，有了具体情况，你就能明白，你是什么情况呢？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Milton even claims that poetry is equal to preaching in its ability to move people, to get them to do something, to make things happen in the world.

弥尔顿甚至声称诗歌,就其打动人心鼓舞人和促进事务发展的能力而言，是和宗教平起平坐的。

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So the exceptions are useful when you want to have the ability to say, I expect in general this kind of behavior, but I do know there are some other things that might happen and here's what I'd like to do in each one of those cases. But I do want to make sure that I don't let a value that I'm not expecting pass through.

所以当你希望有能力说,我希望一般是这样的行为,异常是很有用的,但是我明白还有一些其它的情况可能发生,我希望对每一种情况都这么做,但是我跟希望能保证,没有让一个预期之外的情况漏过去。

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The question is not so much how we control what happens to us but what do we do when we were faced difficult circumstances, and how we can make spiritual meaning even when difficult things happen to us.

问题不是我们能够掌控多少,而是当我们面对困境,能做些什么，我们怎样体现灵性的意义,即便我们面临困境。

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