Friends are tea, help me filter impetuous, save the quiet.

朋友是茶，帮我过滤浮躁，储存宁静。

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For me, it's more of a background filter that helps me answer the question: Am I doing something that's important?

对我而言，这些原则更像生意背后的滤器，帮我解决疑问：我是否在做重要的事情？

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I don't want to filter all their emails, since occasionally they email me with something legitimate (a non-forward).

考虑到这些邮件并非全都一无是处，我也不想把它们全部过滤掉。

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"They tried to use me as a filter, " Abraham says.

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This used to make me crazy because the point of a spam filter is to make spam go away.

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My experience with video through CollegeHumor had taught me that hosting user-generated content without a filter would lead to inevitable legal trouble with the big media companies.

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