Quatations and jokes

ENVIRONMENT.

• The environment is everything that isn't me.

• Albert Einstein.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book doesn't come with it.

Buckminster Fuller.

• Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely grey.

• Irv.Kupcinet.

PROGRESS.

• Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

• Bertold Brecht.

• NATURE.

• Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

• Paul Boese.

• The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe.

• Peter de Vries.

• Man is a complex being: he makes deserted bloom and lakes die.

• Gil Stern.

• Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

• William Wordsworth.

JOKES

*- The best defence against the atomic bomb is not to be there when it goes off.

The British Army Journal.

*- Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

Alen Valentine.

• Research is to see what everybody has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

• Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.

• - Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

• James Magary.

• *- If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

• Charles M.Allen.

• - Light is the ultimate messenger of the universe.

• BBC World Service.

• EXPERIENCE.

• - What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

• Jorge Luis Borges.

• - Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

• Franklin P.Jones.

• - From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

• Sigmund Freud.

• - Experience teaches only teachable.

• Aldous Huxley.

• - Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrible bills.

• Minna Antrim.

CIVILIZATION (* - jokes)

• Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

• Harvey Allen.

• - The human race has improved everything except the human race.

• Adlai Stevenson.

• - Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

• Arthur C.Clarke

• - Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

• Isaac Asimov.

• - Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

• Charles L.Lucas.

CREATION AND CREATIVITY.

• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin.

• James Russell Lowell.

• - Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

• Hector Berlioz.

• - The future is purchased by the present.

• Samuel Johnson.

Unit VIII

Права человека Права личности и права учащегося.

Грамматика: эмфатические конструкции, анализ и перевод сложного предложения

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