- Obesity is on the rise around the world, says Ann Becker. The Harvard anthropologist reports that the “Sudden increase in eating disorders among teenage girls in Fiji may be linked to the arrival of television in the 1990s and to “Western ideals of beauty.”
- Donald Trump offered this advice—“there’s the old story about the boxer after a fight who said: ‘that wasn’t so tough.” What was really tough was my father hitting me on the head with a hammer.”
- Before the Revolutionary War, Patrick Henry made a passionate speech, “is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery”? “Forbid it, Almighty God”! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”!
B. Use quotations from the following group as directed:
- Choose one quotation and write a sentence that introduces a direct quotation with separation.
- Choose a second quotation and write a sentence that introduces a di- rect quotation with integration.
- Choose a third quotation and write a sentence that interrupts a quo- tation with a citation in the middle.
- I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to. (Elvis Presley)
- All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. (Juvenal, Roman poet who lived around 100 AD)
- I don’t know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with — stone clubs. (Albert Einstein)
- Making predictions is difficult, particularly about the future. (Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood producer)
- Stage fright is always waiting outside the door. You either battle or walk away. (Laurence Olivier, British stage and film actor)
- Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. (James Bald- win, American novelist)
- There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help them- selves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. (Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist)
- You can’t say civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. (Will Rogers, early twentieth-century comedian)
