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Infinitive as Object

  1. I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill (Samuel Butler).

  2. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity (Albert Einstein).

  3. I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. (Lord Byron).

  4. In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to. My subjects are also often playful. I cannot help mocking all our unwavering certainties. It is, for example, great fun deliberately to confuse two and three dimensions, the plane and space, or to poke fun at gravity. Are you sure that a floor cannot also be a ceiling? Are you absolutely certain that you go up when you walk up a staircase? Can you be definite that it is impossible to eat your cake and have it? (Maurits Cornelis Escher)

  5. The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility (John Keats).

  6. If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.

  7. "When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident about yourself." (Brian Tracy)

  8. Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps (Gita Bellin).

  9. Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing (Stanley Judd).

  10. Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still (Chinese Proverb).

  11. Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave (Martin Luther).

  12. I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness (Henry David Thoreau).

  13. Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound (James Allen).

  14. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless (Mother Teresa).

  15. Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught (Winston Churchill).

  16. There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right (Woodrow Wilson).

  17. Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in and so easy to build as well (Henrik Ibsen).

  18. No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal (Marilyn Ferguson).

  19. Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts (André Breton).

  20. People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus (Marcel Proust).

  21. A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity (Jimmy Carter).

  22. I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter (Walt Disney).

Arakin, Unit 1 + Grammar

  1. To put up at this picturesque place in early June would be a rare treat. They say there is no accounting for tastes (tastes differ), but this is, no doubt, a place anyone will find to their taste. There are plenty of woods to roam through and a few lovely lakes swim in on a warm sunny day. The more you spend there, the more you get convinced that the place is more like a fairy-tail magical garden than a mere recreation centre. Why not spend the rest of our holiday there? It will be a splendid opportunity to relax from the noisy city and breathe some fresh air. It may raise your spirits, after all.

  2. She was hard to resist when she started cracking jokes. I used to be fascinated at how she always knew what to say and how to raise your spirits. When something didn’t work the way she wanted it to, she would try to experiment till it come up to her taste. This habit of hers would often get her into a mess, but once in a mess, she could tastefully wind anyone round her little finger and in the end you should never have thought that she was the one responsible for the mess in question. It’s really a pity that now, so many years later, she has to scrape her living by peeling potatoes and scraping burned grease off the pots and pans at a McDonald’s.

  3. The handle wasn’t easy to wind. It must have been out of use for 10 years or so. The gossip circulated that the former owners moved after losing a steady income and with the money they had been scraping up/together for their whole life they bought a small country cottage in the north of the country to get settled in.

  4. “The problem is to persuade Susan to agree,” I said watching her empty another helping of sauce into the stew to thicken it and stirring it up with an earnest and thoughtful air. Then she stopped to take all the odds and ends left from her cooking and throw them into the waste bucket. After a while she promised to try talking to her. To be on the safe side, however, she asked me to make my contribution by buying a tasteful piece of jewelry to please Susan.

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