Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
生活就是一系列与未来之间的碰撞；它不是我们过去曾经是什么的总和，而是我们将来想要成为什么的总和。
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To sum up, we are able to make some tentative plans about the future, all because the flexibility built into the iterative process allows us some deviation from the original plan.
He found those with a lower base level of the hormone tended to prefer immediate payment, even when the sum in question was piffling compared with the promised future compensation.