GMAT之AWA论据集锦4

Children
The immaturity¹ of young children may deter² them from making moral discrimination about harmful actions committed against or others. Many scientific research prove that young children do not take into account the intentions of a person committing accidental or deliberate harm and that it is difficult for young children to differentiate³ between unforeseeable and foreseeable, and thus preventable harm.
Television programs and movies that depict⁴ violence among teenagers are extremely popular. Given how influential⁵ these media are, we have good reason to believe that these depictions cause young people to engage in violent behavior. Hence, depictions of violence among teenagers should be prohibited from movies and television programs, if only in those programs and movies promoted to young audiences.
Others
It took Columbus, the Italian explorer in the service of Spain who determined⁶ that the earth is round, over 3 months to sail from Europe to America. However, we can do so by air within one day.
Rabbi Meir, a second-century scholar, admonished⁷ his disciples⁸ to look not at the pitcher⁹ but as its contents because, he stated “Many a new pitcher has been found to be full of old wine.” This was his way of emphasizing the importance of the distinction between form and idea, and of stressing that the integrity of an idea is more important than the form of its expression.
Old sayings
Get new insights through reviewing old materials---Confucius
Get twice the result with half the effort
Kill two birds with one stone.
Tough time does not last long, but tough people do.
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.Mark Twain 不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。
Man errs¹⁰ so long as strives.Johann Wolfgang Goethe,German poet and dramatist 人只要奋斗就会犯错误。
Where there is a will, there is a way.Thomas Edison 有志者，事竟成。
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Keller 要使性格有所发展并非简单之事，只有通过艰难和困苦的磨练才能使心灵强化，视野开阔，雄心振奋，从而达到成功的目的。
Virtue¹¹ is bold, and goodness never fearful.William Shakespeare 美德是勇敢的，善良从来无所畏惧。
Histories make men wise; poems witty¹²; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic¹³ and rhetoric¹⁴ able to contend.Francis Bacon 历史使人明智；诗词使人灵秀；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深邃；伦理使人庄重；逻辑修辞学使人善辩。
Never too old to learn.Thomas Middleton, British writer 活到老学到老。
The more you study, the more you will find yourself ignorant.Rene Descartes, French philosopher/mathematician 学，然后知不足。
All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer 所有幸福的家庭都十分相似；而每个不幸的家庭各有自不幸。
Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.Charles BernardFrench philosopher 经验是智慧之父，记忆是智慧之母。
Knowledge is power.Francis Bacon 知识就是力量。
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Leonard HuxleyAmerican writer 经验不会从天降；经验只有通过实践才能获得。
I disapprove¹⁵ of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire, French writer 我不同意你说的话，但是我愿意誓死捍卫你说话的权利。
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.Aristotle, Ancient Greek philosopher 吾爱吾师，吾更爱真理。
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein 想象力比知识更为重要。
Do not, for one repulse¹⁶, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.William Shakespeare 不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。
I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man. I don’t know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world.Thomas Edison 我想揭示大自然的秘密，用来造福人类。认为，在我们的短暂一生中，最好的贡献莫过于此了。