As I quip in Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, "No one asks to be born, but almost everyone would if he could."

正如我在《儿女满堂的自私原因》中笑谈：“没有人要求降生，但如果可以要求的话，几乎所有人都希望这样。”

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For both of these reasons, I would be a lot more productive if I worked from home at least a couple of days a week - no commute, no distractions.

出于这两个理由，我认为，倘若我每周至少有一两天在家办公——无需上下班，没有分心之事，我的工作效率肯定会大幅提升。

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One of the reasons it is not possible is that, even if you were successful in eliminating all causes of death, the increase in life expectation would be no more than 15 years.

说它不可能的理由之一，就是即使你成功地消除了所有导致死亡的因素，预期寿命的延长不可能超过15年。

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Other employers come to Phnom Penh for more worldly reasons: the low wages and no-quota access into the European and American markets.

ECONOMIST: The economy grows, but so does the opposition

The original Abbey Road zebra crossing, where the photograph was taken, was moved several metres for traffic management reasons more than 30 years ago, and no original features remain.

BBC: Beatles' Abbey Road cover in Calcutta traffic campaign

This should shock no one: conservative donors to charity have radically different views about the reasons for giving than their more liberal counterparts.

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