The best fruits come from the best practices; never compromise on standards.
最好的水果来自最好的实践;绝不能在标准上妥协。
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Success is not an entitlement. It has to be earned.
我不是一个可以被放进盒子的女孩。
你越是赞美和庆祝你的生活,生活中就有越多值得庆祝的事情。
Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.