It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than to memorize some formulas.

知道如何自学永远比记住一些公式更重要。

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Having the ability to solve problems by oneself reflects that the person is independent and has already grown up.

具有独立解决问题的能力，反映出一个人已经独立，已经长大了。

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One is firmly established by oneself.

卓然自立。

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Can the same be true by surrounding oneself with people with exceptional character?

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In fact, given the incessant reblogging of food pictures taken by others or oneself, shaky cell phone camera in hand at a local fine dining hotspot, food is not so much genuinely loved as it is madly stalked, photographed, instagram filtered, traded, and collected on virtual and real walls.

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So, how do we combat an emotional response to a false premise egged on by the refusal to think for oneself critically?

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