QUATATIONS AND JOKES

 

- The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

- Marshall McLuhan.

INTELLIGENCE.

- Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

John Naisbitt.

- To the good listener half a word is enough.

- Spanish proverb.

- I not only use the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

- Woodrow Wilson.

KNOWLEDGE.

- We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

- Rutherford D.Rogers.

- You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

William Blake.

- Knowledge is of two kinds; we know the subject ourselves, or we know

where we can find information upon it.

Samuel Johnson.

- As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Albert Schweitzer.

- The learned is happy, nature to explore,

- The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

- Alexander Pope.

- The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.

- Martin H.Fisher.

- The ffolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

- James Russel Lowell.

 

WORDS AND LANGUAGE.

- If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Oliver Goldsmith.

- Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words. Ecclesiasticus.

- Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

- Lord Byron.

- Numbers constitute the only universal language.

- Nathanael West.

- Soft words are hard arguments.

- Thomas Fuller.

- The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

- Ned Rorem.

- - The medium is the message.

- Marshall McLuhan.

- The thoughtless are rarely wordless.

- Howard W.Newton.

- Words are the small change of thought.

- Jules REnard.

- Words should be weighted, not counted.

- Yuddish proverb.

- Who does not know another language, does not know his own.

- Goethe.

- The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein.

- To have another language is to possess a second soul.

- Charlemagne.

- When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. Goethe.

- Everyone hears only what he understands.

- Goethe.

JOKES

*- The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed your problems, and they never come out again.

Al Goodman.

 

THE FUTURE.

- You can never plan the future by the past.

- Edmund Burke.

- - One must care about a world one will never see.

- Bernard Russell.

- - My interest is in the future, no prediction is ventured.

- Abraham Lincoln.

- - The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.

- Harry Lauder.

- - Light tomorrow with today!

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

- - I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

- Albert Einstein.

- - It takes time to save time.

- Joe Taylor.

 

Unit VI

Карьера и выдающиеся личности современности Биографии выдающихся людей из разных областей знаний, автобиография. Авторское резюме

Грамматика: придаточные дополнения и придаточные определительные. Союзное и бессоюзное присоединение. Многозначность служебных слов: one, it, that…..

 

Walter Elias Disney Jr

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