Questões de Vestibular Fadba 2012 para Vestibular

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven shoort years. Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author who created masterpieces of humor.

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An individual human existence should be like a river – small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the water flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become part of the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970), English mathematician, philosopher, writer and pacifist.