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The world is filled with smart, talented, educated and gifted people. We meet them every day. A few days ago, my car was not running well. I pulled it into a garage, and the young mechanic had it fixed in just a few minutes. He knew what was wrong by simply listening to the engine. [...]

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. 我的一生被三种简单却又无比强烈的激情所控制：对爱的渴望，对知识的探索和对人类苦难的难以抑制的怜悯。这些激情像狂风，把我恣情吹向四方，掠过苦痛的大海，迫使我濒临绝望的边缘。 [...]

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.I turned around to find a wrinkled，little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.She said，“Hi [...]

I got an engagement ring for Christmas. My boyfriend and I had been dating for almost a year and both felt the time was right to join our lives together in holy matrimony. 圣诞节的时候我戴上了订婚戒指。我和男友交往已快一年，我们都感到是携手步入神圣的婚姻殿堂的时候了。 The month of January was spent planning our perfect Alabama June wedding. My mother, two sisters and I went to Huntsville, [...]

那天晚上，警察在离我们家约50英里远的地方发现了汽车残骸和受伤的绑匪。在审讯的时候，开车的绑匪说当时转向是为了避开一个高个子的金发男人。二十年过去了，从来没有人宣布曾经救过Gigi。没有任何逻辑能够解释Gigi为什么能神奇逃脱并从离家那么远的地方回来。 Gigi现在每个周六都会带她的小女儿去公园玩，欣赏阳光在树梢上舞蹈，享受爆米花的香味和孩子们的笑声。她把Gloria的照片放在披风上，她怀念她的天使朋友。像我的女儿一样，从那之后，这种信念也一直帮我克服诸多困难。 Golden sunlight danced in the treetops, and children’s laughter filled the park. The smell of popcorn played on the breeze, and life seemed good. It was one of the happiest Saturday mornings I had spent with my little daughter, Gigi. That is, until two strangers threw her into their car and sped away. [...]

Some people hate going to school but I loved it. My friends and I had a great time. One of my best friends was Lisa. We were in the same dance club at school. One day in math class, I answered a question and got it right. Suddenly, Lisa turned around and said: “You re [...]

A man, a great man, a fighter for freedom was traveling in the mountains. He stayed in a caravans for the night. He was amazed that in the caravans there was a beautiful parrot in a golden cage, continually repeating “Freedom! Freedom!”. And it was such a place that when the parrot repeated the word [...]

I believe honesty is one of the greatest gifts there is. I know they call it a lot of fancy names these days, like integrity and forthrightness. But it doesn’t make any difference what they call it; it’s still what makes a man a good citizen. This is my code, and I try to live [...]

“…I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.”—– Henry David Thoreau. “……我虽然不富甲天下，却拥有无数个艳阳天和夏日。”—-亨利·大卫·梭罗 When Thoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden. Pond he knew as a boy. 写这句话时，梭罗想起孩提时代的瓦尔登湖。 Woodchoppers and the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its setting. A boy could go to [...]

“We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite…” “我们正在读一本书的第一章第一行，这本书的页数是无限的……” I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious, hazy future and carve [...]