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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Sunday, January 16, 2011

THE NEW YORK TIMES.


January 14, 2011, 12:33 PM

Student Challenge Favorites | Top 10 Quote.

Che Guevara, Martin Luther King Jr., Puff Daddy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joe Namath, Albert Einstein, Gen. William T. Sherman, Buzz Lightyear.These were among the many whose words were cited by the participants in our third Studen Challege, in which you were invited to pair a Times photo with a quotation from history, literature or pop culture.(...) 
You can see the quotation below: 
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So in the spirit of David Letterman, here’s our top 10 list of favorites. 
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OUR FAVORITES from the third "student challenge" by The New York Times.
 “Only the dead have seen the end of the war” – George Santayana
 "Kids, They dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music” – William Stafford
 “And all should cry, Beware! Beware!/His flashing eyes, his floating hair!/Weave a circle round him thrice,/And close your eyes with holy dread,/For he on honey-dew hath fed/And drunk the milk of Paradise.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from “Kubla Khan”
 “I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?’” – Eve Merriam
“Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him” – Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H
“Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.” – James Dickey
 “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf” – George Orwell
 “A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way” – Fisher Ames
“Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives” – Siegfried Sassoon
 “When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl” – J. M. Barrie


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