Every time I drift off course, I get reminded of this story.

每当我对人生漫不经心时，我就会想起这个故事。

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I am reminded of Abraham Lincoln's quote, "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

我想起了亚伯拉罕·林肯的名言，“我不喜欢那个人。我必须更好地了解他。”

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But Lan’s answer reminded me that when we think about .... happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, a pinnacle of sheer delight---and those pinnacles seem to get rarer the older we get.

但朗的回答却给了我一个启示：当我们思索幸福时，我们通常想到的是一些非同寻常的事，纯粹的快乐极致——但是随着我们年纪越来越大，那些极端的快乐好像越来越少了。

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We rather get reminded of this when we foreigners forget to leave them a tip (I have actually had a waiter in NYC tell me, as I was sitting down, that he had to tell me as a foreigner that a 20% tip was normal).

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Along the way we get to be reminded of, and marvel at, the franchise story to which it relates.

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And it reminded us that bad decisions in Washington can get in the way of our economic progress.

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