Learning English with Yoda

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…is not a good idea. But let’s see what we can do. Even if you’re not a bigStar Warsfan (I quite like the original three andRogue One, though I first saw the originals when I was 14, slightly too old for them to really have a nostalgic hold on me. The ForceAwakens, the first new StarWars film in 32 years, is OK, but a bit derivative), you probably know Yoda.

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Jung on Alchemy (7): The Coniunctio – part 1 – The Mercurial Fountain

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ACCADDE OGGI – Nascita di Gustave Flaubert.

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ACCADDE TODAY – Birth of Gustave Flaubert.

On December 12, 1821, in Rouen, was born Gustave Flaubert, a French writer best known for his immortal novel “Madame Bovary” .
Here are some of his phrases to remember him and make our best wishes:

“There is nothing so humiliating as seeing the idiots succeed in the businesses in which we have failed.”

“Do not read, as children do, to have fun, or, as ambitious, to instruct you. No, read for a living. “

madame-bovary.jpg“You can be masters of what you do, but never of what you feel.”

“Nervous. It is said every time that nothing is understood of an illness; the explanation satisfies the interlocutor. “

“The most glorious moments of your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when you feel a challenge to life rise from depression and discomfort, and the promise of future realizations.”

I just have to say “happy birthday”.
UnBoscoNellaMente – Tanya.

Were There Women Poets in Ancient Ireland?

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Imagination makes every Human being exceptional

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We have unlimited things in our world to do but only we have to imagine the world to express in our views. Every person have their own imagination. Human imagination is miraculous and unpredictable. Imagination makes everyone exceptional to the others. Without imagination any person is nothing.

What is Imagination? Imagination is sensible images of our thinking. Imagination gives the answer of that question which the person is thought about. Through their imagination the person become may be the stupid or an intelligent, it is depend on their imagination power, how long and deep they can imagine?

How to become great through the imagination? Every person in the world have equal brain, no one differ from another but mostly human beings does not knows how to imagine the world. Every person have the power to imagine but they have not any willingness to imagine. Many scientists in our world become…

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Alright or All Right?

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You may have thought yesterday, when reading about the word almost, that there are a few other similarly-constructed words in English. There’s already, alright, and altogether, all of which are really just all + ready/right/together. And often you can replace the single word with all + together etc. Not always though…

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Get your Mind out of the… Restroom? Euphemisms for Toilet

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Seriously, please. After I wrote about eau de Cologne recently, a few of you referred to eaudetoilette in the comments, and it’s clear similarity to the English word toilet (and in fact, eaudetoilette could be directly translated as toiletwater).

Toilet is a surprisingly interesting word. On the surface of course it just refers to the object that stands in your bathroom, but how and when people use it (the word, not the actual toilet) varies quite a bit around the world.

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Frase del giorno #11

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True love does not imply perfection, but rather flourishes on imperfections. Dialogue is the fundamental glue of any emotional relationship. John Gray