For a long time, I was setting goals that were like punishments: their only purpose was to serve as whips to get me to work.

在很长的一段时间里，我设立了一些看起来像是“惩罚”的目标：它们的目的仅仅是为了鞭策我不得不去工作。

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Company in good faith the principle of mutual benefit to high-quality, low price products to serve the public, unanimously approved a long time.

公司本着诚信互利的原则，以高质量、低价格的产品服务大众，长期以来获得一致认可。

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If the military had a troop shortage could shore up its numbers by allowing openly gay service members to serve, it would have done that a long time ago, too.

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