Many people think that positive thinking is mostly about keeping one's head in the sand and ignoring daily problems, trying to look optimistic.

许多人认为，乐观思维主要表现为逃避现实并忽视日常问题，试图让自己看起来乐观。

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One evening the gulls that were not night-flying stood together on the sand, thinking.

一天傍晚，那些没去夜间飞行的海鸥都一起站在沙滩上默默沉思。

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And a lot of people what they do is they bury their head in the sand thinking hey, I've done the right thing so let them figure out.

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Another of Carman's victims, David Mellor , was described as having "behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts".

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But when you use some of your famous devastating one-liners about people - for example, of David Mellor, "a man who buried his head in the sand like an ostrich thereby exposing his thinking parts" - was that something that personally felt, was it something that you buffed up beforehand?

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