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No matter what you want in life, your ability to attain or achieve that thing boils down to one thing and one thing only. Your thoughts.

A high degree of independence entails considerable demands for transparency.

You cannot live to please everyone else.

And rats are the first to flee a sinking ship.

It's essential to make eye contact when you're speaking to someone.

On average, I come into contact with about twenty people a day.

On the whole, women gossip more than men.

In general, men butt in more than women, which women find very annoying.

If you overhear people having a row in public, you should intervene.

If you overhear people having a row in public, you should intervene.

Politicians generally witter on without ever answering the interviewer's questions.

Elderly people have reason to grumble about the youth of today.

Adults spend more time chatting on the phone than teenagers.

Couples who constantly bicker should split up.

Women chat up men as often as men chat up women.

Też miałbym dość, gdybym był tobą.

I'd be fed up if I was you, too.

to discover more about sth or to take further action connected with it

Becoming fluent in a language will take years, but learning to get by takes a lot less.

Po jakimś czasie, korki zaczęły mi działać na nerwy.

After a while, the traffic got on my nerves.

On Tuesday we drove up to New Hampshire.

We sometimes miss out words in informal writing when it is clear who or what we are talking about.

Have you had a lie-in today?

something you say to show that you are going to say something more exactly - I don't think they liked my idea. At any rate, they weren't very enthusiastic about it.

If a person is adrift, they do not have a clear purpose in life or know what they want to do.

contend - compete in order to win something

to deal successfully with a difficulty or problem

A reciprocal action or arrangement involves two people or groups of people who behave in the same way or agree to help each other and give each other advantages.

feeling angry because you have been forced to accept someone or something that you do not like

uphold - to defend or keep a principle or law, or to say that a decision that has already been made, especially a legal one, is correct

to take the place of something lost or damaged or to compensate for something bad with something good - No amount of money can make up for the death of a child.

account for - to explain the reason for something

allowing yourself to be controlled by other people or animals

a feeling of sadness and being sorry for something you have done: He felt no remorse for the murders he had committed. After the argument, she was filled with remorse.

to influence someone to behave or think in a particular way or to have a particular condition

to make someone more likely to behave in a particular way or to suffer from a particular illness or condition - Smoking predisposes you to lung cancer.

not involving considering or worrying about any harm caused to others - the cutthroat world of journalism / The advertising world can be a very cutthroat business.

said to encourage someone to continue to do something many times, so that they will learn to do it very well

It's a question of striking the right balance between quality and productivity.

If you strike a balance between two things, you accept parts of both things in order to satisfy some of the demands of both sides in an argument, rather than all the demands of just one side:

I met her volunteering at the animal shelter.

That was her trying to take credit for my idea.

w ciągu tygodnia / na przestrzeni tygodnia

over the course of the week

the situation in which there is more than enough of something: There was an abundance of food at the wedding. We had wine in abundance

a situation in which something is not easy to find or get, the scarcity of skilled workers

I wish I could tell you but... this is uncharted territory for both of us.

Możemy rozpamiętywać przeszłość albo spojrzeć w przyszłość.

We can dwell on the past or look forward to the future.

our wives and family watched us with dismay

there's no scientific proof to back that claim

or is it just a dated stereotype?

be articulate in your speaking

avoid mumbling

if you have any comments send me them in writing

since birth I've been exposed to English - Implicit knowledge is the practical application of explicit knowledge.

Because unlike you, I'm trustworthy.

the number of copies of a book produced at one time - The first print run was limited to 5,000 copies, which w. ls an indication of how small a readership the author and the publishers were expecting.

the group of people who regularly read a particular newspaper, magazine - The magazine has a readership of over 250,000.

p until now, I've never really had any contact with the guy in the ticket office.

There was a chemist's across the road.

On the way to a meeting, I remembered that I was running low on face cream.

Having a good day? asked the girl at the till smiling blissfully.

Perhaps the solution is to appoint people who are genuinely interested in people, not those who are trained to be insincere robots.

There are several cafe bars in the immediate vicinity.

retrofit - it's about how sth works, redecorate - it's about how sth looks

They had to retrofit after the last earthquake.

Larry was about to pummel me.

To może wynikać z...

It can stem from...

temporary solution, without solving a real problem focusing more on symptoms / effects.