Samuel Johnson once said that nothing concentrates the mind as much as the prospect of ones own destruction.

萨缪尔·约翰逊曾说过，没有什么能像预见到自己的毁灭一样让人精神集中。

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Food given by another person is only a throat tickler, but food gained by the Labour of ones own hand is the food which satisfies. (Australian proverb).

人家给的食物只能使嗓子眼舒服，而亲手劳动得来的食物则使人心满意足。(澳大利亚谚语)。

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The construction of personal morals consists of both the external factor of the whole societys moral environment and the internal factor of ones own accomplishment.

个人道德建构既受社会道德环境这一外在因素，又受自我修养的内在因素的双重约束。

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"The people that are at the highest level of passive smoke are actually the ones reporting exposure in their own homes.

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But for the moment Bangalore is better at making products for other people than coming up with new ones of its own.

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In any event, the level of privacy reasonably to be expected in a licensed vehicle is far lower than that expected in the privacy of ones home or own car.

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The division of labour runs thus: the younger Takenaka, Kenji, chisels the cherry-wood blocks to old designs and new ones of his own invention, while his father Seihachi runs off the prints by hand, one by one.

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