The $11 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like "I never do anything right" into positive ones like "I can succeed".

价值110亿美元的自助行业是建立在这样一个理念上的：你应该把诸如“我从来没有做对任何事”之类的消极想法转变成诸如“我可以成功”之类的积极想法。

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Sporadic flare-ups would see the police go in to these self-built settlements seeking revenge, only to pull back leaving bodies scattered and the gangs to return to business.

过去零星的突袭行动看见警察进入这些自建的棚屋替殉职同袍复仇，只带回几个落单份子的遗体，而其他大夥照常回去忙毒品生意。

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Up to now, the number of self-built pavilion of foreign countries and international organizations that had been constructed reaches a record high of 42.

目前，有42个国家和国际组织申请建设自建馆，其数量为历届世博会之最。

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Since labour chases wealth, soon the mountain towns were brimming with favelas (self-built settlements), hurled up haphazardly on treacherous slopes.

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Mark Clare, group chief executive of Barratt Developments, the UK's biggest housebuilder, said that self-built homes still needed to be financed and expertise needed to put them up.

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Around 70% of Brazilians own their own homes, but many of these (around 85%, Mr Paim de Andrade estimates) are self-built one room at a time, and are of low quality.

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