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我们生活中最美好的时刻不是被动的、接受的、放松的时刻……最美好的时刻通常发生在一个人自愿努力完成一项困难而有价值的事情时，身体或精神被拉伸到极限。

I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had its roots in the soil.

On earth there is nothing great but man；in the man there is nothing great but mind.