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mustabir |
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Istanbul, Turkey |
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Friday, March 20, 2009 |
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mustabir wrote:No matter which way you go unless you don't have an aim!
...unless you have an aim it should continue...
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No matter which way you go unless you don't have an aim!
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I should necessarily agree with him. This is one of the best descriptions I've ever come across about the truth of human being.
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prolixitysquared wrote:
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
The people really do not appreciate and consider the value of any "natural" abilities unless they have an unfortunate incident hindering them from having these.
But I rather wonder which idea has actually led the author to have a fear of losing the faculty of "reading".
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I think I would stand at the contrary side while I would prefer to go with the below quote by Plato.
What is really important is not that posessing the most but rather being satisfied with the least.
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I think another point is that one could easily discover the positive and negative sides of himself as well as the others' during a working day. After a short observation, you could be aware and get to see how someone would act in particular instances.
Working life seems to be a "revealing" platform of people's characters at this point.
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MichalG wrote:Which direction is the more positive?
I think the one standing in the positive side here is pretty clear (unless you do imply anything else that I have no idea right now), but I am also convinced of the fact that pulling up would always require more effort and energy than pushing down.
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First, it is interesting for me to come across those old-fashioned forms of "you" and "have" stated in the quote. I should say that a foreign learner of English can not often encounter this kind of old words in the vocabulary-teaching books or in other English sources during its learning process!
This quote has anyhow reminded me of the below quote which is sometimes referred to Henry Ford but I could not exactly find out the English version of it so that I am not so sure of this point. It is briefly something like as follows...
Someone who has not really made any mistakes in the life is also the one who has not yet done anything.
I'd be glad, though, to hear the original version in case anybody else knows it already.
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bream -> cream
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In addition to all these said above, I would say that, apart from learning some grammatical issues and making etymological discussions here in this language forum, I also have the expectation of finding out how the words, phrases, other language constructions in English would need to be used most correctly and effectively in their "daily" usage. I think this could only be possible when you come across them being mentioned in various subjects (of art, literature, politics, music, maybe sports). And I obviously consider the FreeDictionary forum as a right place for this, having the most sophisticated native and foreign speakers together who are really keen on using this language in a most correct way. This is what I tend to go with about this issue.
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