在二十世纪以前，没有人经历过人口总数成倍的增长，但是如今有活着的人看到了三倍的人口增长。

Before the 20th century, no human had lived through adoubling of the human population, but there are people alive today who haveseen it triple.

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有明星亲笔签名的那些东西和给这些东西签名的人物具有同样大的影响力，不管这些明星是活着还是已经死了。

The material on which an autograph was signed, and whether the star was living or dead, could have as much of an impact as who signed it.

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仅此一个事实便可解释为什么成功的有创意的人们一直以不停地创作来度过时日；他们必须这样做，他们创造是因为，这就是使他们活着的部分原因。

That one fact alone explains why successful creative people keep creating well past the time in which it's necessary for them to do so; they create because it's a part of what makes them come alive.

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.. So I'm going to restrict myself, at least when I think about it, to versions that say, it's the life of a person per se that's valuable.

所以我会坚持，至少是对我来说，我会坚持，作为人活着的本身是有价值的这种观点。

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So, it's something like the life of a person that, when we say, when there are people who are inclined to say, that being alive per so is valuable, presumably what they mean is being alive as a person per se is valuable.

所以这差不多就是人的生活，当说到，当人们说到，活着本身是有价值的，我们便假设它的意思是,作为人活着的本身是有价值的。

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