Vocabulary - Precarious

Precarious:

Likely to fall, or likely cause someone to fall.

Are you sure he's safe on that ladder? It looks very precarious up there.

The bottle was in a precarious position on the edge of the table.

We had to cross a precarious rope bridge.

Persian: متزلزل، بی ثبات

Vocabulary - Gait

Gait:

The way someone walks, especially when it is a little strange or unusual.

A slow shuffling gait.

Melanie walked with the slightly awkward gait of a very tall person.

The old man approached the counter with a stooped, shuffling gait.

Persian: طرز راه رفتن

Poem - I stepped from plank to plank By Emily Dickinson

I stepped from plank to plank:

I stepped from plank to plank   
  So slow and cautiously;   
The stars about my head I felt,   
  About my feet the sea.

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Quotes - Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain:

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.

Quotes - Mark Twain

Mark Twain:

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Vocabulary - Abyss

Abyss:

A deep empty hole in the ground which seems to have no bottom.

Persian: گودال

Poem - Is bliss, then, such abyss By Emily Dickinson

Is bliss, then, such abyss:

Is bliss, then, such abyss   
I must not put my foot amiss   
For fear I spoil my shoe?

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Poem - Family Circle By Melissa G. Nicks

Family Circle:

When I am born, you are here
In your eye, I see a tear
Time flies and already I'm two
"Look, daddy, I can tie my shoe!"

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Story - The Mysterious Carport Stain

The Mysterious Carport Stain:

Oh, no! Denzel thought. Where’d THAT come from? He was looking at a big red dry stain that was on the carport where he always parked his car.

There was only one thing to do: check his power steering fluid and his transmission fluid, both of which were red. The power steering fluid was at the proper level, so that left the transmission fluid. A small leak could result in a damaged transmission, which could cost $1,000 to $2,000 to repair or replace. Denzel did not have $1,000 or $2,000.

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Quotes - Albert Camus

Albert Camus:

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Quotes - Lena Horne

Lena Horne:

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Quotes - Jaroslav Pelikan

Jaroslav Pelikan:

Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

Quotes - John Andrew Holmes

John Andrew Holmes:

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

Quotes - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Quotes - Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë:

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Poem - Ode To Motherhood By Faith E. Pilato

Ode To Motherhood:

They say the child chooses
the parent before
they are conceived

God gave me lists
of mother's names
and pictures of them too.

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Quotes - Alice Walker

Alice Walker:

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Quotes - Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill:

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Vocabulary - Whistleblower

Whistleblower:

An insider who reveals an act, generally illegal, taking place, which the person committing the act would not wish to be public.

The CEO was sent to jail after a whistleblower who worked at the company leaked documents to the press proving illegal stock manipulation.

Quotes - Morrissey

Morrissey:

God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!

Quotes - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton:

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

William Shakespeare Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no! it is an ever-fixéd mark

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Quotes - W. Clement Stone

W. Clement Stone:

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Poem - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock By T. S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock:

S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
    A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
    Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
    Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
    Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,
    Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo.

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Poem - Metaphors By Sylvia Plath

Metaphors:

I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf's big with its yeasty rising.
Money's new-minted in this fat purse.
I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I've eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there's no getting off.

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Quotes - Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov:

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Traditions - Prophet Mohammad

Prophet Mohammad:

A real believer is a person, who shares his/her property with a poor person and treats on justice.

Persian: کسي که در مال خود با فقير مساوات کند و با مردم به انصاف رفتار نمايد او مومن حقيقي است

Proverb - You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover

You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover:

Decisions shouldn't be made primarily on appearance.

Proverb - You Are What You Eat

You Are What You Eat:

In order to stay healthy you must eat healthy foods.

Idiom - A Roof over your Head

A Roof over your Head:

A place to live.

He was so poor that he didn't have a roof over his head.