With little hesitation, I said yes, thinking to myself I'd come to dinner wanting to talk logistics and production rates, and left with a trip to Liberia on the agenda.

当时我毫不犹豫地就答应了，暗自庆幸自己原本只打算在晚餐中谈谈物流和产品价格后，没想到最后还能捞着去利比里亚的机会。

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Not until one of my classmates patted me on the shoulder did I come to myself.

直到我的同班同学拍了一下我的肩膀，我才回过神来。

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Nothing is more exhausting than the task that is never started, so I've come up with some tricks to use on myself, to prod myself to get started.

没有什么比那永远也不开始的任务更让人精疲力尽了，所以，我搞了一些小策略鼓励自己开始工作。

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"There's a lot of fans I come across who have gone on to have careers in law enforcement or become attorneys like myself.

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Well recall from week zero when we took a very real world phonebook and then just last week we had our volunteer come up with the array of pieces of paper on the board and when I challenged myself and when I challenged our volunteer to find me the number 50 both he and I were able 50 to leverage one assumption.

大家回忆一下,当我们拿着一个现实世界的电话簿,就在上周我们的志愿者,在黑板上提出了纸片的阵列,我挑战自己，也挑战志愿者,要找出同一个,数字。

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"I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required, " she said in an interview with the Atlantic Monthly in 2001.

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So I'm thrilled to finally have the chance to come here and see for myself, and I want to thank Secretary Vilsack not just for being out front on this issue but for his leadership and work at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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