I think maybe that’s what folks have been trying to get through my thick head all these years: You can’t choose to have or not have an illness, but you can choose the way you opt to cope with it.

我想这可能也是朋友们这些年来敲破我木鱼脑袋都想灌输的讯息：你不能选择生不生病，但你可以选择怎样对待。

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She may not have the money to maintain or restore her property.

她也许没有足够的钱来保留或维修自己的房产。

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You'll have to choose whether to buy it or not.

买还是不买，你得作出选择。

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"That will not have any appreciable or noticeable impact on the air traffic control infrastructure in the foreseeable future today.

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So, that's a homogeneous system, one phase. You have to know if your system is an equilibrium system or not.

所以这是个均匀系统，只有一个相，你得知道你的系统,是不是个平衡系统。

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so that's great that a lot of people have enough time to be in something that's not math or science related.

很多人投入了时间，来做与数学或科学无关的事情，这真的太好了。

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If you're not sure whether you have or not then you need to check.

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Bottom line: As the rate of childlessness equalizes the decision to have or not have children becomes more of a voluntary one.

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Obviously this does not include deliberately lying to others about your identity, what you have or have not accomplished, or your intentions and motivations.

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