"to see past means to look beyond. for instance, if you look past someone's house you can see the forest. or if you look past his bad attitude you can see he is really is really a good person."とは 意味・読み方・使い方

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

the rule that police (when interrogating you after an arrest) are obliged to warn you that anything you say may be used as evidence and to read you your constitutional rights (the right to a lawyer and the right to remain silent until advised by a lawyer)

For example, when I see scenery from a car window, when I see an interesting building while walking, when I recall a long movie in a single moment, and especially when I see the work of a painter I admire.

It must also be said that spotting what is important in current science is a matter of judgement, one cannot know that one is right.

And we can communicate so many things in so many ways - with our faces, hands, bodies, and voices. We can even write our thoughts in words.

I thought, "Yes, that's right! These days we just use and throw away so many things. We should handle things more carefully and should use them for a long time."

in the philosophy of Kant, the doctrine that the objects of perception are conditioned by the nature of the mind as to their form but not as to their content or particularity, called transcendental idealism

(used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

The secret of success lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own.

The other thing is that I always thought about what I wanted to do rather than what I should do or what I could do.

any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law)

right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality

an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer)

being in or of a region of the United States generally including states of the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region lying north of the Ohio River and the southern boundaries of Kansas and Missouri and between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the eastern boundaries of Montana and Wyoming and Colorado

You think someone coarser than you is "crude", and someone higher class than you to be "putting on airs".

an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice')

bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

Every individual is different, but everyone is connected in a way that surpasses all ages, careers, nationalities and ideals.

Working in a society gives women both hardship and achievement, but the daily chores at home don't seem to give them fulfillment.

We look back on days gone by if not always with affections, at any rate with a kind of wistfulness.

The only useful knowledge is that which teaches us how to seek what is good and avoid what is evil.

When I told him about my dream, he said, "You only get one life. Don't give up your dream just because you are blind."

Instead use words like "some", "many", "often", and begin statements with openers like, "In my experience, ...", "Excuse me if I'm wrong, but...", "In many instances, ...."

of the 24 divisions of the old lunar calendar, the period of time beginning around the seventh of July, which marks the beginning of summer, and extending until about the twenty-third of July, which marks the beginning of midsummer

the religious belief that God has given enough clues to be known to humans positively and affirmatively (e.g., God created Adam `in his own image')

When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.

an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images

in a form of divination based on the principles of Yin and Yang, certain days which are either very Yin or very Yang, which are considered either very lucky or very unlucky, and on which certain events should be avoided accordingly

When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture.

produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing')