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1. Ripening time and identity of size and shape are nowadays, more important in carrots than the fact that they taste like carrots. Personally, I don’t care if they hybridize onions till they are as big as your head and come up through the snow; but in doing so, they are producing onions that only vaguely and feebly remind you of onions.(Science Has Spoiled My Supper)
2. We are “worth more than many sparrows,” and in saying this we are not merely expressing a natural preference for our own species simply because it is our own but conforming to a hierarchical order created by God and really present in the universe whether and one acknowledges it or not. (Vivisection)
3. In the wattle-and-daub villages and urban shantytowns where most Third World people live, environmental quality is more than a question of the quality of life: it is often a matter of life or death. In many nations, environmental degradation is now recognized as a key barrier to governments’ ability to meet basic needs and sustain living standard. (A Planet in Jeopardy)
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4. Perhaps the soap will produce its loudly advertised effects; perhaps it will transform them into the likeness of those ravishing creatures who smile so rosily and creamily, so peachily and pearlily, from every hoarding. (Beauty Industry)
5. America was a land that was beginning all over again, dedicated to nothing much more complicated than the rather hazy belief that all men had equal rights and should have an equal chance in the world. In such a land Lee stood for the feeling that it was somehow of advantage to human society to have a pronounced inequality in the social structure. ( Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts)
6. I will ask only one question, and it is, of course, a rhetorical question which expects no answer. In the whole of your life as you now remember it, has the desire to be on the right side of that invisible line ever prompted you to any act or words on which, in the cold small hours of a wakeful night, you can look back with satisfaction? If so, your case is more fortunate than most. ( Inner Ring)
7. What makes basketball the most intriguing of sports is how these styles do not necessarily clash; how the punishing intensity of “white” players and the dazzling moves of the “blacks” can fit together, a fusion of cultures that seems more and more difficult in the world beyond the out-of –bounds line. ( The Black and White Truth about Basketball )
8. They were showing the finest new weapons, grand, whining, and built perfectly for death. Whoever summoned and made palpable all that force and skill knew death was best and would be earless to the little voice of mothers whose sons were their children before they got to be targets or heroes. (The Everlasting Witness)
9. Spiritual emptiness or ugliness shows through. And conversely, there is an interior light that can transfigure forms that the pure aesthetician would regard as imperfect or downright ugly. (Beauty Industry)
10. How lose should the intelligent music lover wish to come to pinning a definite meaning to any particular work? No closer than a general concept I should say. Music expresses, at different moment, serenity or exuberance, regret or triumph, fury or delight. It expresses each of these moods, and, many others, in a numberless variety of such shadings and differences. (What to Listen for in Music)更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
1. Ripening time and identity of size and shape are nowadays, more important in carrots than the fact that they taste like carrots. Personally, I don’t care if they hybridize onions till they are as big as your head and come up through the snow; but in doing so, they are producing onions that only vaguely and feebly remind you of onions.(Science Has Spoiled My Supper)
2. We are “worth more than many sparrows,” and in saying this we are not merely expressing a natural preference for our own species simply because it is our own but conforming to a hierarchical order created by God and really present in the universe whether and one acknowledges it or not. (Vivisection)
3. In the wattle-and-daub villages and urban shantytowns where most Third World people live, environmental quality is more than a question of the quality of life: it is often a matter of life or death. In many nations, environmental degradation is now recognized as a key barrier to governments’ ability to meet basic needs and sustain living standard. (A Planet in Jeopardy)
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4. Perhaps the soap will produce its loudly advertised effects; perhaps it will transform them into the likeness of those ravishing creatures who smile so rosily and creamily, so peachily and pearlily, from every hoarding. (Beauty Industry)
5. America was a land that was beginning all over again, dedicated to nothing much more complicated than the rather hazy belief that all men had equal rights and should have an equal chance in the world. In such a land Lee stood for the feeling that it was somehow of advantage to human society to have a pronounced inequality in the social structure. ( Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts)
6. I will ask only one question, and it is, of course, a rhetorical question which expects no answer. In the whole of your life as you now remember it, has the desire to be on the right side of that invisible line ever prompted you to any act or words on which, in the cold small hours of a wakeful night, you can look back with satisfaction? If so, your case is more fortunate than most. ( Inner Ring)
7. What makes basketball the most intriguing of sports is how these styles do not necessarily clash; how the punishing intensity of “white” players and the dazzling moves of the “blacks” can fit together, a fusion of cultures that seems more and more difficult in the world beyond the out-of –bounds line. ( The Black and White Truth about Basketball )
8. They were showing the finest new weapons, grand, whining, and built perfectly for death. Whoever summoned and made palpable all that force and skill knew death was best and would be earless to the little voice of mothers whose sons were their children before they got to be targets or heroes. (The Everlasting Witness)
9. Spiritual emptiness or ugliness shows through. And conversely, there is an interior light that can transfigure forms that the pure aesthetician would regard as imperfect or downright ugly. (Beauty Industry)
10. How lose should the intelligent music lover wish to come to pinning a definite meaning to any particular work? No closer than a general concept I should say. Music expresses, at different moment, serenity or exuberance, regret or triumph, fury or delight. It expresses each of these moods, and, many others, in a numberless variety of such shadings and differences. (What to Listen for in Music)更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net