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Like the old song says, there's no place like home, not because of the real estate, but because of the sense of shelter and nurture that it provides.

就像古老的歌中所唱，没有地方会像家一样，不是因为它实际的地产价值，而是因为它所提供的庇护和养育的感觉。

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Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture in the minds of those who built them.

金字塔、大教堂和火箭的存在并不是因为几何形状或热力学，而是因为它们首先是建造它们的人的脑海中的图画。

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The study found that the main shoot grows the best of all not because of its position at the top of the plant, but mostly because it got there first.

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But it's not because of some magical property in the fruit itself, but because of the action of disobedience itself.

但并不是因为苹果本身拥有的魔力，而是因为叛逆这一行为本身。

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So, could be, those are his reasons that he's not crazy because he gets all of it out.

所以，或许那些可以证明他不是个疯子，因为他已抽身于作品之外了。

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Well, they win because they have the best players, not because of what they do.

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He succeeded not because of his ideology but, to some extent, in spite of it.

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Steve Jobs was successful in spite of his approach to leadership, not because of it.

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