2009-01-31
There are three kinds of goals: short-term, medium-term and long-term goals. Short-term goals are those that usually deal with current activities, which we can apply on a daily basis. Such goals can be achieved in a week or less, or two weeks, or possibly months. It should be remembered that jus
2009-01-31
To me March 28th was a lucky day. It was on that particular evening that I found myself at central stage, in the spotlight. Winning the "21st Century·Ericsson Cup" Seventh National English Speaking Competition is a memory that I shall treasure and one that will surely stay.More important than winni
2009-01-31
I didn't cry when I learned I was the parent of a mentally handicapped child. I just sat still and didn't say anything while my husband and I were informed that two-year-old Kristi was - as we suspected - retarded. "Go ahead and cry," the doctor advised kindly. "Helps prevent serious emotional
2009-01-31
Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium, with the given name of Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston. She really was blue-blood from the beginning with her father, a wealthy English banker, and her mother, a Dutch baroness. After her parents divorced, Audrey went to Lo
2009-01-31
The nice women are ugly. The beautiful women are not nice. The beautiful and nice women are general stupid. The beautiful, nice and clever women are married. The women who are not so beautiful but are nice women are born in poverty. The
2009-01-31
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the art since the medium is the human mind and spirit. I shall speak only of my first teacher because in addition to the other things, she
2009-01-31
BRITISH university entrants expect to be provided with washing machines and dryers in their rooms, and even car parking spaces, a survey has found.Students are also less prepared to tolerate poor quality living conditions than their predecessors, says the survey by British polling organization Mori.
2009-01-31
Voting for the TV advert theme song for automotive giant Toyota's latest release lasted more than 20 days. In the end, "Colourful Days", by Pu Shu, was chosen by close to 50,000 fans as the theme song for the hyped up TV commercial. It was released as a single and has been on the Asia Musi
2009-01-31
（1）一粥一饭，当思来之不易。 半丝半缕，恒念物力维艰。 The growing of rice and of grain Think on whenever you dine; Remember how silk is obtained Which keeps you warm and looks fine.（2）宜未雨而绸缪，勿临渴而掘井。 In periods of drought Wise birds mend their nest So when the clouds burst T
2009-01-31
I was fifteen months old, a happy carefree kid . . . until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a glass rabbit which cut my eye badly enough to blind it. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched the eyeball together where it was cut, leaving a big ugly scar in the middle of my eye. The
2009-01-31
Long ago,there was a huge apple tree. a little boy love to come and play around it everyday.he climbed to the tree top,ate the apples,took a nap under the shadow…he loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him.time went by…the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree e
2009-01-31
PLEASE, God, let him telephone me now. Dear God, let him call me now. I won't ask anything else of You, truly I won't. It isn't very much to ask. It would be so little to You, God, such a little, little thing. Only let him telephone now. Please, God. Please, please, please. If I didn't think about i
2009-01-31
Life comes from life. The universe is a living thing made by love and of love. The earth too as part of the universe is a living thing made of love. We experience her love in the abundance of support she provides us such as the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. And we recog
2009-01-31
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the art since the medium is the human mind and spirit. I shall speak only of my first teacher because in addition to the other things, she
2009-01-31
However mean your life is, meet it and live it，do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even
2009-01-31
Suppose you set your mind to work on the problem of how you would use your own eyes if you had three more days to see. If with the oncoming darkness of the third night you knew that the sun would never rise for you again, how would you spend those three precious intervening days? What would you mo
2009-01-31
My aunt Edith was a widow of 50, working as a secretary, when doctors discovered what was then thought to be a very serious heart ailment. Aunt Edith doesn’t accept defeat easily. She began studying medical reports in the library and found an article in a magazine about a well-known heart surgeon,
2009-01-31
Afternoon was Mrs. Conroy's favorite time of day. After a hard day at work, her eyes were tired and her feet hurt. She enjoyed the nice long nap she took on the bus. Mrs. Conroy had made friends with the bus driver, Mr. Angstrom. He always woke her up before her stop. She usually felt fresh as a dai
2009-01-31
On the Internet, as in life, men and women have different motivations for doing what they do. According to a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life, women view the Internet as a place to extend, support, and nurture relationships and communities. Men tend to see it as an office, a librar
2009-01-31
有人曾经说过，如果让你列出10个最亲密的朋友和熟人，然后把你和他们的收入从少到多进行排序，那么你可能会发现自己处在中间位置。Someone once said that if you were to make a list of your 10 closest friends and acquaintances and order your earnings and theirs from smallest to greatest, you'd probably find y