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也就是说，做事不要总是思前想后，即使别人说些不中听的话，也要听完就马上抛到脑后。这种有益的钝感，与精神上的安定和保持心情愉快密不可分。

今后无论发生什么事情，若是小K的话，他都可以十分顽强地闯过难关，说不定将来还会成为公司的骨干。可是敏感的小N，在以后的生活中，就会接连不断地遇到挫折，他的朋友们也将渐渐地和他疏远起来。

We have built up a democratic system which suits us. In a liberal democracy, a man, once elected, is free from all party discipline. You have that in Singapore, you have unstable government.

“...these three superstates are permanently at war, and have been so far the past twenty five years. War, however, is no longer the desperate,annihilating struggle that is was in the early decades of the twentieth century.”

Drinking glass illusions. “Big packages have plenty of kitchen accomplices. It’s been estimated that 72 percent of our calories come from food that we eat from bowls, plates, and glasses.6 These containers can create persuasive visual illusions that cause us to misjudge the amount of food they contain”

“In fact, with the 47 products we’ve examined, the bigger the package, the more they use.”

See it while you eat it. When you’re eating chicken wings or ribs, you’ll eat less if you see what you’ve already eaten. The same is true with beverages—it’s easy to forget how much soda you’ve had if there’s nothing to remind you. One way is to count beverage empties.

See it before you eat it. Instead of eating directly out of a package or box, put your snack in a separate dish and leave the box in the kitchen.

Our stomach can't count and we don't remember. Unless we can actually see what we're eating, we can very easily overeat.

subcategories of clothes to start discarding: tops, bottoms, clothes that should be hung (jackets, coats), socks, underwear, bags, accessories (scarves, belts, hats etc), clothes for specific events (swimsuit, uniforms), shoes

start with clothes, then books, papers, miscellaneous stuff, and lastly, mementos.

we should be choosing what we want to keep, not what we want to get rid of.

discard, then tidy.

sort by category, not by location.

some sunscreen lotions are designed to provide a matte finish for oily or combination skin, such as clarins uv-plus b protection day screen spf 40 and journee biorestorative day cream with psp spf 30/ colorescience sunforgettable mineral powder brush spf 30 or spf 50 comes in a self-dispensing

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"avoid eye creams with fragrances, which can irritate the skin and cause swelling. Be careful when applying creams and serums around the eyes. Pat gently onto the under-eye area and just below the brow, but never put any on the eyelid itself. Eyelid skin is so thin that the ingredients in products can actually penetrate to the eye-ball beneath."

"If your skin oily or prone to acne, tone twice a day (morning and night)."

"if you're into gadgets, one of my fav is the clarisonic sonic skin cleansing system, which truly does remove more makeup, dirt, and oil than manual cleansing alone. because it leaves skin cleaner and more exfoliated, serum and treatment products penetrate better... if it's not in your budget, play's professional pro-x advanced cleansing system machine can be found in many drugstores..."