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24 • www.compellingconversations.comthe conversAtion continues…1. Do you exercise regularly? What are your favorite ... earnestly.” —Siddhartha Guatama (563– 483 B.C.E.), philosopher 2. “The rst duty of a physician is that he should do the sick no harm.” —Hippocrates (460– 380 B.C.E.), anci...
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... • iCOMPELLING CONVERSATIONSQuestions and Quotations on Timeless TopicsAN ENGAGING ESL TEXTBOOK FOR ADVANCED STUDENTSWritten, Compiled, and Edited byEric H. Roth and Toni Aberson
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... this book by the Conversation Club promises to lead to even more compelling conversations. Please visit our website, www.compellingconversations.com, to offer feed-back, suggest additional topics, ... progress. Compelling Conversations gives you the tools and phrases to talk more and listen better to friends and strangers in English. Finally, I hope you enjoy creating many compellin...
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... Waldo Emerson ( 180 3– 188 2), American essayist/philosopher6. “Don’t tell your friends about your indigestion. ‘How are you’ is a greeting, not a question.” —Arthur Guiterman ( 187 1–1943), American ... it.” —Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ( 180 3– 187 3), British novelist/politician8. “Condence contributes more to conversation than wit.” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1 680 ), French wr...
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... Waldo Emerson ( 180 3– 188 2), American writer7. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to nd it.” —George Moore ( 185 2–1933), Irish playwright8. “No matter ... ourselves.” —Henry Ward Beecher ( 181 3– 188 7), clergyman/abolitionist 4. “Rearing a family is probably the most difcult job in the world.” —Virginia Satir (1916–1 988 ), family therapist...
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... dishes do you cook?“Gluttony is not a secret vice.” Orson Welles (1915–1 985 ), great director/actor
14 • www.compellingconversations.comvocAbulAryPlease circle the words that you know. Write three ... a man to a worm.”—Ambrose Bierce ( 184 2–1916), American writer 8. “I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”—Winston Churchill ( 187 4–1965), British Prime Mi...
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... done it from my youth.”—George Crabbe (1754– 183 2), English poet 8. “The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.” —John Stuart Mill ( 180 6– 187 3), English political philosopher 9. “The ... sins turn into bad habits.” —Saint Theresa ( 187 3– 189 7), French nun and author 6. “Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.” —Mark Twain ( 183 5–1910), American humorist...
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... difference between a dog and a man.” —Mark Twain ( 183 5–1910), writer 7. “If man’s best friend is a dog, his worst is dogma.” —Leo Rosten (19 08 1997), writer 8. “I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cat ... equals.”—Winston Churchill ( 187 4–1965), British Prime Minister 9. “Animals are such agreeable friends–they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”—George Elliot ( 181 9– 189...
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