We are learning to step back from ourselves and identify our strengths and weaknesses.

我们正努力学会走出自我的樊篱，认清我们自身的优势和缺点。

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For now we have to find a means of saving us from ourselves.

现在，我们必须找到一种途径，进行自我解救。

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As Nathaniel Branden puts it - we spend our entire lives alienated from ourselves.

正如纳撒尼尔·布兰登所说的，我们花了一辈子让自己和自己更格格不入。

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We can see a lot of trouble around our borders and we cannot distance ourselves from the geopolitics of this region.

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They come so instinctively and easily it's difficult, and sort of unnatural, to step back and explore them scientifically but if we're going to be scientists and look at the mind from a scientific perspective we have to get a sort of distance from ourselves and ask questions that other people would not normally think to ask.

他们来得如此本能，容易,这是困难的，有某种超自然韵味，退后，从科学角度研究他们,但如果我们打算成为科学家,从科学角度,看待心理,我们需同我们自身保持某种距离,问问题,问其他人通常不想问的。

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We will never be virtuous simply because we cloistered ourselves or segregated ourselves from any temptation.

我们永远不会非常善良仅仅因为我们与世隔绝,或是把我们和诱惑分离。

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