This stone had been held in someone’s hand and polished over and over. Not with jeweler’s rouge mind you.

它曾被人攥在手中，细心擦拭过无数次——而且用的可不是珠宝商那种脂粉。

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Reading is to the thoughts of others into pieces of stone, and building up their own mind.

读书就是将别人的思想变成一块块石头，然后建筑起自己的思想殿堂。

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If you're really looking for some brain-boosting benefits, physical exercise is an extremely effective way to exercise your mind-and you're killing two birds with one stone.

如果你真想通过练脑得到些好处，那么多锻炼就是一种非常有效的练脑方法——真可谓是一举两得啊。

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"The reality is this is the battlefield of the mind, " Stone says.

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One recent case that comes to mind was a lady who lost one and a half stone.

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"In Mindy's mind, a proposed order might as well be written in stone because every proposed order that had been presented in the past down in Florida courts, the judge would just rubber-stamp it, " he said.

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