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Using wise quotations

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Alfred Yiu is here to help you get through your exams. A graduate of the University of Hong Kong, he has 15 years' experience in tutoring students for HKCEE and A-level exams and has also written English textbooks.

Besides good journalistic ideas, there is a large reservoir of quotations by wise men that are particularly useful to AS Level writing topics. Below are some good examples:

Weak minds have a penchant for excuses and inertia.

Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty. He has the way but never the will to do it.

Words are cheap and intent needs to be measured by results.

Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.

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