A builder once told me that when you buy a house, it's important to check the foundations: you can fix most problems, but if the foundation is unstable, you may end up having to start from scratch.

一位建筑工人曾经告诉我，你买房子的时候，检查一下房子的地基是非常重要的。因为你可以解决大部分问题，但是如果地基不稳的话，最终你就只能推倒重建了。

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It's sad that it took that series of life-altering events to wake me up, to make me take massive action to become more free, to find meaning in my life.

说来悲哀，经过数次改变人生轨迹的事件，我才清醒过来，为追寻人生的意义，为追寻自由的生活而展开行动。

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And it's up to me to put that return value in a variable.

那个放在变量中的值是取决于我所赋的值。

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"That's what really opened up the experience for me, to prove how bad it is to really text and drive."

VOA: special.2010.07.01

And it's up to me to put that return value in a variable.

那个放在变量中的值是取决于我所赋的值。

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And it just tears me up to see the solution that health care is expensive, so let's have somebody else pay for it."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

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Milken's contribution to my early development was seminal, in the sense that it opened the whole world up to me the possibility of seeing other cultures, and envisioning a world beyond the confines of Los Angeles, certainly.

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That's why it is so important for me to open up these doors, to have you guys come from all over the country to sit in the same chairs that kings and queens and ambassadors and senators have sat in, right?

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