Better regret for a month than for ten years, then change the fact in the left nine years and eleven months.

为一件事情后悔十年，不如用一个月时间后悔，然后用剩下的九年零十一个月的时间改变。

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"And better ones than you found last time? The last one didn't stick around very long. I don't think he even lasted a year. Left after eight or nine months." Sound familiar?

他说“对了，要比你上次找的那个好点，能坚持时间长点，上一个还不到一年吧，恩，也就8,9个月吧”听上去耳熟么？

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Yet nine months of grit and determination is better than a generation of buffered decline where the U.S. guts its private wealth to pay its public sector to provide an illusion of prosperity.

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The FT reported that Nasdaq says it integrated Instinet in just nine months after acquiring the platform in 2005, a better record of integration than the NYSE and Euronext.

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