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Selected English readings for recitation: Holstee
2012-8-21 17:12
HOLSTEE MANIFESTO This is your life. Do what you want and do it often. If you don't like something, change it. If you don't like your job, quit. If you don't have enough time, stop watching TV. If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you ...
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Selected English readings for recitation: Oriah Mountain Dre
2012-8-21 16:56
The Invitation Oriah Mountain Dreamer home page It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for lo ...
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Selected English readings for recitation: Samuel Ullman
2012-8-13 15:42
YOUTH Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, vigor of the emotions;It is the freshness of the deep spring of life. ...
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Selected English Readings for recitation: Douglas MacArthur
2012-8-13 15:38
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a s ...
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Selected English readings for recitation: Winston Churchill
2012-8-13 15:32
A gifted American psychologist has said, “Worry is a spasm of the emotion; the mind catches hold of something and will not let it go.” It is useless to argue with the mind in this condition. The stronger the will , the more futile tha task. One can onlyy gently insinuate something else into its ...
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Selected English readings for recitation: Richard Foreman
2012-8-10 17:13
I come from a tradition of Western culture in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense and "cathedral-like" structure of the highly educated and articulate personality—a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the W ...
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Selected English readings for recitation: Matthew Frederick
2012-8-9 23:42
No design system is or should be perfect. Designers are often hampered by a well-intentioned but erroneous belief that a good design solution is perfectly systematic and encompasses all aspects of a design problem without exception. But nonconforming oddities can be enriching, humanizing ...
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Selected English readings for recitation: Virginia Woolf
2012-8-9 23:37
The success of the masterpieces seems to lie not so much in their freedom from faults—indeed we tolerate the grossest errors in them all—but in the immense persuasiveness of a mind which has completely mastered its perspective. Exerpt from THE DE ...
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Selected English readings for recitation: Chris Guillebeau
2012-8-7 14:04
11 WAYS TO BE UNREMARKABLY AVERAGE 1. Accept what people tell you at face value. 2. Don’t question authority. 3. Go to college because you’re supposed to, not because you want to learn something. 4. Go overseas once or twice in your life, to somewhere safe like England (or the ...
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Selected English readings for recitation: Hugh Macleod
2012-8-7 13:21
The Hunger The Hunger to do something creative. The Hunger to do something amazing. The Hunger to change the world. The Hunger to make a difference. The Hunger to enjoy one’s work. The Hunger to be able to look back and say, Yeah, cool, I did that.& ...
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