Because if we aren't, we won't be providing much value in future ecosystems, and that may put in question the foundation for our existence.

因为如果我们不是（最具有创造力的生物），我们将无法在未来的生态系统中提供多少价值，这可能会使我们存在的基础受到质疑。

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Educational cooperation and people-to-people exchanges represent the future of our friendship and form the foundation of our cooperation.

人文交流与教育合作象征着两国友谊的未来，也是两国合作的基础。

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It is with the strength of these emotions, as well as the concrete, glass and steel that is brought in day by day, that we will build on the footprints of the past the foundation of the future.

正是因为这些情感的力量，以及一天天堆积起来的混凝土、玻璃和钢筋，我们在过去的脚印上重新出发，为未来铺平道路。

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Wendy Hawkins at the Intel Foundation says these young people represent the next generation of scientists who will help shape America's future.

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He says he hopes the U.S.and Burma could "take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying a foundation of goodwill and confidence-building in the future."

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But they can never engage in those efforts, if we do not do the job that I am confident we will do tomorrow morning at 7:00 AM on Christmas Eve, and that is to renew the American dream, and revive our middle class, and rebuild the foundation upon which future generations will stand.

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Its new, democratically elected government believed this approach was the best way to lay the foundation for future racial harmony.

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