1. Being nice is just another word for being a people pleaser. “好人”不过是“讨好别人”的另一种说法。 2. A man who listens, thinks, and observes more is the most dangerous man alive. 善于倾听、思考和观察的...
Slowly, however, many of the people who were living 6 in the towns began to grow tired of 7 .They began to feel interested in looking for things which could not be explained, for sights and sounds which produce in a feeling of fear and excitement. 8 in the 9 century, people began to...
I hadn’t read a word since reading The Last Honest Man in NJ. My head still ached. Dinner was vegan wontons with onions, carrots, and celery in a soft rice wrap. Apple cake for dessert. We want for nothing. Except sleep. That night, we had a youth group right next door to ...
Though these well-intentioned and righteous believers in the cause of “comradeship” often alienated many of their own families, neighbors and employers to express their idealistic support for the Soviets, Lenin believed they lacked the hard edge, the mental toughness, and the willingness to lose ...
When I was 6, perhaps early 7, my parents separated. We were living in the same town here in Germany where I live now. My mom continued to live in that same apartment for another 30 years. My dad moved to a place not far away with the woman who became my mom in the US. She ...
The world’s population continues to grow. There are about five billion of us on earth now. It could reach six billion in 10 years’ time, and eleven billion in another 75 years. Experts have long been concerned about such growth. Where will we find the
The final speaker at the 2015 Toronto Domestic Violence Symposium isPaul Elam, the founder ofA Voice for Men. Elam begins his lecture by describing what he sees as some of the obstacles in the way of a broader understanding and solution to domestic violence. According to Elam, one of the ...
to open a very profitable brothel (she did not like the latter word and preferred to describe her establishment as a “YMCA with extras” or a “house of leisure and pleasure”. She opened the establishment in 1946 and although she was charged 47 times for living on immoral earnings, it ...
When we would come to the school the kids would get lunch.. ordinarily they wouldn’t – and clean water for the whole school was in 2 jugs on the side of the school…. if kids needed to go to the bathroom they’d have to go to the edge of the property as there was no bathroom...
work so I can get some time off. With a job, you work 8 to 5, weekends off, and you can call in sick. A volunteer position owns you body and soul and is no respecter of holidays or even wee hours of the night. My advice to new retirees is to watch out for that “V” word...