"Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction and knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you are capable.

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The kind of discipline and self-restraint necessary for an educated mind appears, for him, to be unequally divided among human beings.

那种受过教育者,所必备的纪律与自制，对他而言似乎是不平等地,区隔了人群。

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This history suggests that something about suffering and self-sacrifice appeals to the scientific mind.

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Through Gawker, Denton wages war on self-regard or presumed self-regard, as his cast of mind is both abstract and deeply tribal, inclining him to sort nearly all people into one or another category that could be judged full of itself.

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