我的思想老落后于现实。

My thinking always lags behind reality.

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你可以运用你的思想，创造你的现实。这就是吸引力的原则。

With your thoughts, you create your reality. This is the principle of attraction.

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就好像现实与我的思想相去甚远。

It was like the clouds in my mind had parted and reality struck.

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To be sure, Machiavelli focuses on key aspects of political reality which are often ignored by thinkers like Plato and Aristotle.

事实上马奇亚维利所专注的,政治现实观点,是其它思想家所常遗漏,像柏拉图和亚里士多德。

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it's in thinking critically and applying the ideas that you get from reading that... really make it valuable.

学习文学能锻炼我们的批判性思维，我们还能将文学中体现的思想应用到现实生活中。这才是文学的价值所在。

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Because the self-help movement in many ways is about telling us how it's all about the power of the mind, talk about "Think and grow rich", the book; we'll talk about the secrets which is about creating our reality through our thoughts.

因为自助运动在很多方面,是在告诉我们信念力量是怎么回事，提到《思考致富》那本书;,我们会讨论各种秘密,它们如何通过思想创造现实。

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