As I began to cherish my well being, and counter their humiliations, my life began to improve overall.

于是，我开始珍惜自己的幸福，而且驳回他们的羞辱，从此我的生活得到了全面改善。

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It may mean being deliberately, even brazenly, counter-culture by insisting that more is not better, and by finding your own meaning rather than letting society dictate your life to you.

同时可能是故意的，甚至是明目张胆的反对传统，坚持多必然不够好，同时找寻自我的意义而不是让社会支配他们的生活。

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Don and I regularly5 schmoozed over the counter about movies, our families, our dogs, and philosophies of life.

唐和我常隔着柜台闲聊，聊聊电影、家人、我们的狗狗，还有人生哲学。

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But in another sense his life runs directly counter to the American dream, rejecting the American dreams of his parents and grandparents, in search of something older.

NEWYORKER: The Conciliator

" Emerging in late afternoon from the darkness of a movie theater is just as bad: "Local sunlight after rain had, quite unaided, the power not just to make my spirits drop--many things did that--but to convince me, beyond anything that could counter, that life would never again have anything to offer me.

FORBES: A Truly Rare Book

Oct 2, 2012 -- Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the first Software titles have launched via Steam, marking a major expansion to the platform known as a leading destination for PC and Mac games.

ENGADGET: First non-game titles now available on Steam, game dev tools lead the charge