*The Funny Thing About Human Beings* * **A man asked Jaime Cohen, ‘What is the human being’s funniest characteristic?’*
* * *Cohen said, ‘Our contradictoriness. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood.* * * * We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money getting well again.* * * *We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present, nor the future. * * * *We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we’d never lived.’ * * * * ** --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "English Learner's Cafe" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/english_learners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
