Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

别自寻烦恼的只想比你同时代的人或是先辈们出色，试着比你自己更出色吧。

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Don n't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ——William Faulkner.

威廉姆斯覻·福克纳（美国作家）：别自寻烦恼的只想比你同时代的人或是先辈们出色，试着比你自己更出色吧。

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They may be humble, but they are not awed by peers or predecessors. They have personal faith in the value of their own contributions to academic learning.

他们可能为人谦逊，但不会畏惧同侪或前辈，他们相信自己的贡献对学术知识有价值。

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"I think that people want their church leaders not just to say they are sorry for others, for their predecessors or other bishops or priests around the world, but to take responsibility for the entire Church."

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Boisseau says that over the years she never shared a meal or flew on the jet with Keyes or his predecessors.

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In 1999, Mr Blair removed all but 92 of them, leaving a chamber whose other members were all the appointees of his own government or its predecessors.

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This will be only the fifth occasion since the 1945 general election when the Lib Dems, or their predecessors the Liberals, have defended a parliamentary seat in a by-election.

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