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an increasing number of researchers concerned with the learning of English as a global language have rejected altogether the notion of a standard native speaker target, instead arguing that English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the prime
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“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”
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“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.”
― The Princess Diaries
― The Princess Diaries
“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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