All of us have spent money and time on something—maybe a relationship, or a business, or a job—and sometimes, even if we know there's no hope that things will change, we still continue with it.

我们所有人都在某些事情上花费了金钱和时间——也许是一段关系、一笔生意，也许是一份工作——有时，即使我们知道事情没有希望改变，我们还是会继续做下去。

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Or maybe you waste no time but proceed straight to your goal.

也许你根本没有浪费时间，直奔目标而去。

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No, I didn’t choose them the first time around, because maybe I didn’t understand how good they were.

没有，我在第一次选择的时候没有选择这些，可能是因为我在当时并没有理解这些照片有多么好。

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(No Transcripts) "Maybe a story I told a long time ago that kid will carry with him, and he'll make the right choice."

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Well, maybe the answer is there's no particular time at all when I killed him But for all that, it's true that I killed him ? What makes it true that I killed him?

也许答案是,我什么时候杀死他根本没有确切的时间,尽管如此，我杀死他是真的,为什么我杀死他是真的？

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