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Teachers and students alike have experienced the curious paradox that beginners, as a rule, tend to think too little about what they are doing because they think too much about what they are doing.

老师和学生都有过这样奇特的矛盾经历：一般来说，初学者往往对自己正在做的事情（的本质）想得太少，因为他们对自己正在做的事情（的细节）想得太多了。

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I go to bed early as a rule.

我一贯睡得早。

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Most analysts view it more as a movement of various local groups with the common aim of imposing Islamic-based rule.

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they regret the things as a rule that they didn't try.

他们统一后悔的都是没有尝试过的事。

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If I asked you what magazines you read, it turns out people who are right wing read right wing magazines, people who are left wing read left wing magazines, because people don't as a rule enjoy getting information that disconfirms what they believe in.

如果我问你们，你们看什么杂志，我会发现右翼的会看右翼的杂志，左翼的会看左翼的杂志，因为一般来说，人不喜欢接收到,与他们信奉的相矛盾的信息。

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As a rule, he writes about completely ordinary people, middle- and working-class, from drab places.

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As a rule of thumb, you can control one variable in your business: you.

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As a rule of thumb, products that speak to basic needs are more recession proof.

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