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“the multimedia principle, namely that we learn better from words and pictures than from words alone. Another is to make use of narratives or storytelling as a teaching tool to help students make connections between [the episodic] and [the semantic processes] underlying them are. This is similar to dual coding where relationships are made between what is in our visuospatial sketchpad and phonological loop.”

“then asked her out of interest if she remembered what the point of the lesson was, to which Veronica replied: "Swiss rolls!" And there was problem. They remembered the lesson, but not what it was about.”

“Working memory is susceptible to interference and distraction, particularly when multiple tasks are being performed simultaneously or when irrelevant information is provided, such as visuals that are "interesting" or "fun" but which only distract – what we call seductive details.
This can lead to errors and impairments in performance.”

“Simply put, if students are having to remember more than four new things at once, they're likely to become overloaded and engage in oft-task behaviours or worse still, lose confidence and motivation.”

“reflexões lusíadas organizadas pelo suplemento dito de letras e artes do Diário de Notícias.”

“bispos e polícias não passavam de inquisições paralelas, por essas e outras é que ele, como católico, não ia à missa.”

“lying in her happiness, like nothing had been lost.”

“ver passar as operárias da fábrica de material de guerra,”

“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.”

“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.”

“And we got on quite well, really, for the vision I gave my father of my life was exactly the vision in which I myself most desperately needed to believe.”

“he did not know that this was all he needed to have done.”

“Um boeing dentro dum boeing. Como cada pessoa, também o avião transportava uma imagem de si mesmo.”

“«Repetimo-nos em círculo fe-chado, passamos a vida a repetir pessoas, locais e situa-ções, e eu creio que é por uma afirmação de identidade (…)»”

“«Nunca deixar de ter em mente que o deslumbramento pelas tradições rurais pode ser uma sublimação do remorso citadino»”

“«Isto não é um país, é um sítio mal fre-
quentado.»
Amadeu, silêncio. Sítio mal frequentado por quem? Pelos indígenas locais ou pelos estrangeiros perturbadores da paz infecta? Adiante.”

“no matter how many beds I find myself in between now and my final bed, I shall never be able to have any more of those boyish, zestful affairs—which are, really, when one thinks of it, a kind of higher, or, anyway, more pretentious masturbation. People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted. If this were not so I would not be alone in this house tonight.”

“I suppose this was why I asked her to marry me: to give myself something to be moored to. Perhaps this was why, in Spain, she decided that she wanted to marry me. But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.”

“a de Waldir, mas essa era a sua moeda de liberdade. Sempre que, de longe em longe, se pressentia tocada pelos sinais duma paixão, vinha-lhe a imagem do anjo corrupto em seu auxílio.”

“não abre uma janela das que dão para a rua porque sempre há gente a olhar, prefere as traseiras, muito mais tranquilas desde que existe a televisão.”

“não é correcto dizer ex-mulher neste caso, (…) Porque dizer ex-mulher significaria que a mulher tinha deixado de o ser, (…) a mulher continua a ser mulher, o que deixou de ser foi esposa, (…) então deveria ter dito que às dez horas cheguei à rua da ex-esposa do tipo da carta, (…) O comissário cortou a discussão, Guardem isso para outra altura, vamos ao que importa,”

“(…) the desire to live a routine life. I crave what society tells me will complete me. I crave a femme for my butch, a house of our own, a union of two with children who resemble us, enough money to protect us from hardship. Despite the fact that this white-picket dream is a product of the popular imagination and is actually completely at odds with my core beliefs,”

“‘The ability to express empathy – the capacity to share and feel another's emotions – is limited by the stress of being around strangers.’”

“‘The ability to express empathy – the capacity to share and feel another's emotions – is limited by the stress of being around strangers’”

“ia mijar na retrete do chefe.”

“divertidas crises políticas que eram como fogachos de duração prevista e intensidade vigiada, quase sempre a fazer de conta, e com as quais se aprendia, não só a não dizer a verdade como a fazê-la coincidir ponto por ponto, quando fosse útil, com a mentira,”

“O murmúrio de aprovação que se ouviu na sala mostrou ao primeiro-ministro que este lance havia sido ganho pelo ministro do interior, Assim se fará, tome as providências necessárias, disse, e, mentalmen-te, pôs-lhe outra nota negativa na página correspondente do caderno de aproveitamento escolar do governo.”

“a comparação é grosseira e enganosa, sou o primeiro a re-conhecê-lo, e não faltará quem liminarmente a rejeite como uma ofensa à inteligência, à lógica e ao senso comum, mas é possível que muitas pessoas, e espero que depressa se venham a converter em esmagadora maioria, se deixem impressionar,”

“o primeiro, o segundo, o terceiro, o quarto, o quinto,”