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The faithful believer mixes conscience with patience in his behaviour . He communicates with people in order to increase his knowledge . He earns his livelihood in an honorable manner . He asks everybody to increase his knowledge and keeps silent to avoid mistakes . He avoids coercion , ignorance , lies and keeps always himself from evils . He does not divulge the secret of others . He does not inquire into the secret affairs which does not concern him . He is honest and is trustworthy . He helps those who have helped him . If any person does good to him he remembers it and he is grateful to the doer . He is generous , without prodigality and wastings . He is kind and compassionate to the poor and weak persons , and anyone could expect his help in the difficulties .

+ نوشته شده در Wed 5 Mar 2008 ساعت توسط Learning English |

money talks

People often say that money talks. They mean that a person with a lot of money can say how he or she wants things done. But it is not easy to earn enough money to gain this kind of power.

Ask anyone in a business. They will tell you that it is a jungle out there. The expression probably began because the jungle is filled with wild animals and unknown dangers that threaten people. Sometimes people in business feel competing businesses are as dangerous as wild animals. And they feel that unknown dangers in the business world threaten the survival of their business.

People in business have to be careful if they are to survive the jungle out there. They must not be led into making bogus investments. Bogus means something that is not real.

Nobody is sure how the word got started. But it began to appear in American newspapers in the eighteen hundreds. A newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, said the word came from a criminal whose name was Borghese. The newspaper said Borghese wrote checks to people although he did not have enough money in the bank. After he wrote the checks, he would flee from town. So, people who were paid with his checks received nothing. The newspaper said Americans shortened and changed the criminal's name Borghese, to bogus.

People trying to earn money also must be aware of being ripped off. A person who is ripped off has had something stolen, or at least has been treated very unfairly.

A writer for the magazine "American Speech" said he first saw the expression used in nineteen seventy-one. It was on a sign that a student carried during a protest demonstration at a university. The message on the sign was that the student felt ripped off, or cheated.

Perhaps the best way to prevent getting ripped off in business is to not try to get rich quickly. To be successful, a person in business works hard and tries to get down to brass tacks.

This expression means to get to the bottom or most important part of something. For example, a salesman may talk and talk about his product without saying the price. You get down to brass tacks when you say, "it sounds good, but how much does it cost."

Word expert Charles Funk thinks the expression comes from sailors on ships. They clean the bottom of a boat. When they have removed all the dirt, they are down to the brass tacks, the copper pieces that hold the boat together.

So, if we get down to brass tacks, we can prevent ripoffs and bogus ways of earning money in that jungle out there. And, some good luck will help, too.

+ نوشته شده در Tue 4 Mar 2008 ساعت توسط Learning English |

There is sometimes that all your intelligence shouts something, but you change your belief, for who you don't want to have distrust on and believe they don’t tell the truth, for the moments they helped you, and you even forget sometimes they tripped you, to respect the holiest word…Friendship!

گاهي اوقات تمام شعورت چيزي را فرياد مي زنه، اما باورت رو تغيير ميدي ، به خاطر كساني كه نمي خواهي بهشون بي اعتماد باشي و باور كني راست نميگن ، به خاطر زمان هايي كه دستتو گرفتن، و حتي فراموش مي كني اون گاه و بيگاهي كه بهت پشت پا زدن، به احترام مقدس ترين واژه....دوستي......

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To: my loving wife

A man checked into a hotel. There was a computer in his room. So he decided to send an E-MAIL to his wife.

However he accidentally typed the wrong e-mail address and without realising his error, he sent the message. Meanwhile,

Somewhere a widow had just returned home from her husband's funeral. The widow decided to check her mail,

Expecting message from her relatives and friends.; After reading the first message she fainted.

The widow's son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and saw the computer screen which read:

To: My loving wife
Subject: I've just reached
Date: 13th Oct 2006

I know you are surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now, and you are allowed to sent e-mails to your loved ones.

I've just reached and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you.

Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was;

MORAL OF STORY :: be careful while sending mails if not mishaps like these happen

+ نوشته شده در Sun 24 Feb 2008 ساعت توسط Learning English |

Why Women Cry

Why are you crying, a young boy asked his Mom?
'Because I'm a woman,' she told him.
'I don't understand,' he said.
His Mom just hugged him and said,
'And you never will, but that's O.K.'.......

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+ نوشته شده در Thu 3 Jan 2008 ساعت توسط Learning English |

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