It turns out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar.

实际上，当我想到过要年轻的自己翅膀，她只是想让她精神旺盛。

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Self-assertion was not thought seemly in a woman.

人们认为女性过于自信是不得体的。

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Unlocking our self improvement power means unlocking ourselves out of the box of thought that is just the way we are.

释放我们自己提升的力量意味着将我们自己从认为自己就是这样的盒子里解放出来。

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He thought of it as high-minded or self-important.

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You could make a long list but it might include things Like the capacity for language and higher thought or abstract thought, conscience, self-control, free-will.

你也许能列出一个长单子，它可能包括以下东西,比如语言能力，高级或抽象思维能力，良心，自控力和自由意志。

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Self knowledge is like lost innocence, however unsettling you find it; it can never be un-thought or un-known.

自我认知就像逝去的童真，不管你有多不安;,你已经无法不去想或是充耳不闻了。

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Yes, this is how my 17-year-old self actually thought.

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As Kansas inched back late in the game, coach Bill Self said he thought of the 2008 final, when the Jayhawks charged back from a nine-point deficit in little more than two minutes to snatch a championship.

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