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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

想要过一种灵性的生活我们必须有进入我们孤独沙漠的勇气，并通过持续不断的努力改变我们独处的花园。

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As the New York Times put it, he "struggled for much of his life with his weight,with alcohol and with persistent tales of womanizing."

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This is impressive: he dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, and he did so to take laboring jobs, each time enacting a conflict between intellectual life and manual labor that would be a persistent and central theme of his poetry.

令人印象深刻的是，他从,达特茅斯学院和哈佛大学都辍学了,来劳作，每一次都在,脑力劳动和体力劳动间发生矛盾,这也是他的诗歌的核心主题。

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His contention is that life consists of persistent patterns of information, and that since these can be mimicked inside a computer, the resulting programs can be said to be alive.

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So whether it is our hopeless good nature that wishes to believe in the altruism of the free gift giver (unlikely) or our burning desire to receive something-for-nothing (more likely), the freebie-seeking thread is so persistent in us that the theme remains a constant in money and life.

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"Persistent low-level rudeness and disruption seems to have become a fact of life in education today and no longer raises eyebrows or seems to merit special attention, " said Dr Ian Lancaster, a secondary school teacher from Cheshire.

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