Quotes - Rick Warren

Rick Warren:

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Vocabulary - Bisect

Bisect:

To divide something into two equal parts.

A long cobbled street bisects the town from east to west.

Persian:
دو نیم کردن

Vocabulary - Citadel

Citadel:

A strong  fort built in the past as a place where people could go for safety if their city was attacked; fortress.

The town has a 14th century citadel overlooking the river.

Persian:
قلعه 

Vocabulary - Plush

Plush:

Very comfortable, expensive, and of good quality; plush.

Their casino is the plushest in town.

He took me out to a plush restaurant.


Persian:
مجلل، اعیانی

Poem - Softened by Time’s consummate plush By Emily Dickinson

Softened by Time’s consummate plush:

Softened by Time’s consummate plush,   
  How sleek the woe appears   
That threatened childhood’s citadel   
  And undermined the years!  

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Quotes - Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë:

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Quotes - Aidan Chambers

Aidan Chambers:

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside.

Vocabulary - Dissect

Dissect:

To examine something carefully in order to understand it.

In this book the lives of famous people are dissected.

Persian: بررسی کردن

Quotes - Syrie James

Syrie James:

I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.

Story - Victory Dance Leads to Death

Victory Dance Leads to Death:

A basketball game ended abruptly Saturday afternoon when 18-year-old Damon Miller was fatally shot at a recreation center. The gunman, who called himself Ace, ran south on Oak Street after the shooting and remains at large. Miller was pronounced dead at the scene by the paramedics. He died from two gunshot wounds to his chest. The paramedics did not arrive immediately because they were tied up at a four-car crash a mile away. This was the second such shooting during a basketball game, apparently by the same gunman.

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Quotes - Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry:

You can't build your life around hurts from the past.

Vocabulary - A Ticking time bomb

A Ticking time bomb:

A “ticking time bomb” basically means a situation that can happen at any time; something bad that will happen.

That man smokes too many cigarettes, drinks too much alcohol, eats too much junk food, and never exercises.  His doctor is worried about his heart and told him that he’s basically a ticking time bomb unless he changes his lifestyle.

Many experts say that the economy is like a ticking time bomb.  It’s OK now but it’s going to fail badly sometime in the near future.  We just don’t know exactly when.


Quotes - William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare:

I wasted time, and now doth time wastes me.

Quotes - René Descartes

René Descartes:

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen.

Poem - One day is there of the series By Emily Dickinson

One day is there of the series:

One day is there of the series   
  Termed Thanksgiving day,   
Celebrated part at table,   
  Part in memory. 

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Quotes - Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein:

(In reaction to Hiroshima): If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

Vocabulary - Book hangover

Book hangover:

When you've finished a book and you suddenly return to the real world, but the real world feels incomplete or surreal because you're still living in the world of the book.

I have a really bad book hangover today, I could hardly concentrate at work.

Vocabulary - Deep Bro Talk

Deep Bro Talk:

A serious talk between two close male friends, in which they talk about all the things going on in their life at the moment. Deep bro talks are sacred meetings, and all the things discussed during them cannot be told to anyone else without the other's consent.

Sam had a deep bro talk with David about his crush on Sammy.

Vocabulary - Diabolical

Diabolical:

Evil or caused by the devil.

Sometime after her acceptance, she exhibited signs of her former diabolical symptoms.

Persian:
شیطانی

Quotes - Georges Canguilhem

Georges Canguilhem:

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Vocabulary - Larceny


Larceny:

The act or crime of stealing; theft.

Brook now faces probable jail after an indictment for larceny and income tax evasion.

Democrats have always been concerned about the abuse of power, not petty larceny.

He argued that the old distinction between the offense of false pretenses and larceny had been preserved.

He was probably right, for our kids were much too busy to think about drugs or larceny.

Old terminology such as larceny, larceny by a trick, false pretenses and embezzlement were replaced by modern terms.

Persian:
سرقت

Story - Woman Lies About Winning Lottery

Woman Lies About Winning Lottery:

A 39-year-old woman admitted that she had lied. She claimed that she bought the latest winning lottery ticket in Massachusetts, but then lost it. The ticket was worth $18 million after all deductions. Jean Fenn was charged with grand larceny. A conviction could put her in prison for up to seven years.

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Quotes - Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde:

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

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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