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Answers to Selected Exercises 16.
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All students should study a foreign language.
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It improves mastery of English.
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It helps to avoid cultural provincialism by expanding the cul-
tural experience of students.
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It is useful for travel and commerce.
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It makes it possible to do ad- vanced work in a foreign language, including the
study of the major literary works in that language. Finally,
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the ability to read, speak, and think in a second language is a source of pleasure and satisfac-
tion even if this language is not used for travel and business and even if it does not become a field of
further study.
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19.
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Lefty Grove was the greatest pitcher of all time, period.
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The one best indicator of a pitcher’s abil- ity is his ERA, and
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Lefty Grove led leagues in earned run average nine times.
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No one else even approaches this record.
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The second-best indica- tor of a pitcher’s ability is his winning percentage.
Guess what?
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Grove also led the league in that more times than anyone else.
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XERCISE
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1. Most Californians are friendly. 4. Human beings are the only rational creatures on
Earth. 7. Having a lot of money is not the secret to true
happiness. 10. Because a well-regulated citizen militia is neces-
sary to the security of a free state, the right of in- dividual citizens to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed. [ Not: The right of the individual citi- zens to keep and bear such arms as are necessary for
the maintenance of well-regulated citizen militias shall not be infringed.]
13. Common sense tells us that long-established gov- ernments should not be changed without compel-
ling reasons. That is why, as all experience shows, people tend to be willing to endure political abuses,
while those abuses are tolerable, rather than cor- rect them by abolishing the forms of government
to which they are accustomed. But when a long series of abuses and injustices, all with the same
purpose, makes clear that the government is at- tempting to establish a complete dictatorship, it is
their right and duty to throw off the government send the wrong messages about what is valuable in
education and in life.
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Everything eternal is necessary. But
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whatever God wills, he wills from eternity, for
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otherwise His will would be mutable. Therefore,
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whatever He wills, He wills necessarily.
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10.
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Education implies teaching.
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Teaching implies knowledge.
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Knowledge is truth.
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The truth is everywhere the same. Hence
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education should be everywhere the same.
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13.
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Planetary exploration has many virtues.
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It permits us to refine insights derived from such
Earth-bound sciences as meteorology, climatol- ogy, geology, and biology, to broaden their pow-
ers and improve their practical applications here on Earth.
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It provides cautionary tales on the alternative fates of worlds.
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It is an aperture to future high technologies important for life here
on Earth.
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It provides an outlet for the tradi- tional human zest for exploration and discovery,
our passion to find out, which has been to a very large degree responsible for our success as a spe-
cies. And
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it permits us, for the first time in his- tory, to approach with rigor, with a significant
chance of finding out the true answers, questions on the origins and destinies of worlds, the begin-
nings and ends of life, and the possibilities of other beings who live in the skies—questions as basic to
the human enterprise as thinking is, as natural as breathing.
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