and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say a private man, but even the great...
follow your passion. If you don’t have a passion, don’t be satisfied until you find one. Life is too short to go through it without caring deeply about something. When I was your age, I was incredibly single-minded in my goal to be a physicist. After college, I spent eight years...
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand and remember. Churchill warned the British to expect "blood, toil, tears and sweat", FDR told Americans that "the only thing we have to fear is fear it...
Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?” 1. A.engaged B.dressed C.elected D.appointed 2. A.getting on B.putting on C.carrying on D....
This battery-free device hangs like an ornament(装饰品) in a tree and harvests all the energy it needs from the natural swinging of branches. Such a sensor could watch the woods for a decade without human attention. “For forest fire monitoring, you don’t need high amounts of energy,”...
When a being is Taken, they are warped into the Ascendant Plane, where they are reshaped into spectral ghost-like versions of their former selves, with new paracausal abilities and a single-minded dedication to the one that Took them. Ecumene The Ecumene were attuned to the Darkness, and...
stone huts against the scarred hillsides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin- clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than you...
C. success depends not so much on natural ability as it does on effort D. success in one’s profession is latest important in one’s life Passage 3 Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage: About 70 million Americans are trying to loss weight. That is almost 1 out of ev...
Several weeks ago I had put a reminder on my calendar, to ask/remindcivilized Americanslike-minded friends to wear a black armband on 1/20/25. I’ve donned that symbol of bereavement when my father died, when John Lennon was murdered, and on a few select occasions when I thought a vis...
4 I think that parents should sit down to talk with their children to let them know that they have a happy family, so the children and their parents can understand each other better and better. 5 That’s what we really need from our parents. A.What does a true family mean? B.Nearl...