"I wanted to go to a place where bread mattered to people."

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So you can see, and this is an important thing we look at, is that as we look at growth, it didn't look like it mattered a lot with 6.

现在你可以明白，我们在做的是一件很重要的工作，那就是当我们看到增长的时候，参数为6的时候倒是没什么关系。

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But that's not the kind of thing about existence that mattered to me.

但是这样的存在对我来说并不重要。

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Two and two things along mattered in terms of determining who will be the extraordinarily successful and the rest: the first thing was the extraordinarily successful groups really believe in themselves.

只有两件事会决定谁会成为格外成功的人,和其余的人上有关系：,第一是那部分人真的相信自己。

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It mattered that much to them.

这对他们来说很重要。

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What was it that mattered in ordinary survival?

生存中最重要的是什么，这二者的区别？

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In terms of what mattered to me, what I wanted was not just that I exist, but that I be alive,indeed be a person, indeed be a person with pretty much the same personality.

说到对我来说重要的事情，我不仅仅希望存在，而是希望存活，作为人活着，带着我原有的人格活着。

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