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 Introductory text
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