In the quiet this morning, I feel the nagging tension that comes with the fact that I regularly observe people making God into a good luck charm and a shortcut to worldly wealth and prosperity. It’s easy to do with the simplistic equation that is given. In my wrestling with this ...
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle. When I...
and all this time she’s been an unflagging supporter of my by-no-means lucrative pursuit. We both believed, early on, in the true value of art: a humanistic, even spiritual value transcending money. We still do. This conviction has helped us avoid delusions of wealth. Despite toda...
tenminutes.我写的演讲原稿被压缩到了大约十分钟。Intheend,whatitallboilsdowntoismoney,orthelackofit.最后,一切都归结为钱,或者说是缺钱。【针对练习】完成句子(1)Thekettle___overthefire.壶里的水在火上沸腾。(2)Sheforgottoturnoffthegasandthepot___.她忘了关煤气,锅就烧干了。(3)Sheonly___forhe...
Cover letters make things more personal for the job that you are applying for and separate you from the rest of the pack who just include resumes. As you can see, there are many considerations when planning an employment change. Use the suggestions you have just read to guide you in your...
Paraphrase: a person or thing is typical or normal(P37) I’d prefer to have three or four outstanding years of winning stuff than having ten years of being average.【翻译】我宁愿有三年或四年的杰出的胜利,而不是十年的平庸。【语言提升】...
It gave up lightness, it gave up a wealth of exotic color, it gave up a certain kind of theatrical wit and that age-old mobile exchange between a dancer and the dancer’s rhythmical and musical material. No material in modern dance was bodies. Modern dance excluded its own theatrical ...
“the favorable outcome of something attempted.” For many students in college, success means passing a class, earning an A, or learning something new. Beyond college, some people define success in terms of financial wealth; others measure it by the quality of their relationships with family ...
21. A.wealth B.faith C.experience D.confidence 22. A.depressed B.embarrassed C.ashamed D.thrilled 23. A.writing B.suffering C.weeping D.wandering 24. A.abnormal B.regular C.comfortable D.meanin5gful 25. A.presents B.e-mails C.letters D.prizes ...
Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it was a much more democratic process. — David Korten 48 Every financial crisis is made out of excess money and ...