Those enable you to be functional in society, but can also fuel one's "default mode" of self-centeredness and self-absorption to an extreme degree.

这些能让你在社会中发挥功用，但同时也可能刺激你极端的自我中心或专注自我的“错误方式”。

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One's real value first lies in to what degree and what sense he set himself.

一个人的真正价值首先挥手于他在什么程度上和在什么意义上从自我背诵出经受。

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We may want others to be with us at death, we may die for another or for a cause but no one can, in the slightest degree, have one's solitary death taken from him or her.

我们可能会希望在死亡的时候有人陪伴，我们可以为某个人或某个理由死去，但是没有人有任何可能性逃避掉孤独死去的命运。

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He's an artist juggling a trillion musical ideas, complete with a master's degree in ethnomusicology, but then there's his other master's degree the left-brain one, in biostatistics.

NPR: Koushik Bends Genres To His Will

Fred Volkmar, director of the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine, who wasn't involved in the recent study, described one former patient who has a master's degree, goes to work and lives on his own, but every night he eats the same meal, canned fish, reads on the computer about software and then goes to bed.

WSJ: Who Can Outgrow or Recover From Autism

One is that, to a degree that was not true in Henry Ford's day, the money is in the brands, not in the machinery.

FORBES: Ghost cars, ghost brands