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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

- 01:19 - Komentari (1) - Isprintaj - #

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

- 00:18 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

- 23:17 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

- 22:17 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

- 21:37 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

- 23:08 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
My friends are my estate.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

- 21:08 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

- 21:07 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
I didn't even breathe.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

- 20:06 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.

- 19:37 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

- 02:06 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.

- 01:06 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

- 00:05 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

- 23:04 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

- 22:17 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

- 23:41 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

- 22:40 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

- 21:39 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

- 20:39 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'

- 19:38 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let’s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let’s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

- 04:09 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Memory feeds imagination.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

- 03:08 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

- 02:08 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

- 01:07 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

- 00:06 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Keep cool and you command everybody.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

- 23:32 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Nothing is said that has not been said before.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

- 22:31 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

- 21:31 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

- 20:30 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

- 19:29 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

- 04:21 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
A joke's a very serious thing.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

- 03:21 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

- 02:19 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.

- 01:20 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

- 00:19 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
A poem is no place for an idea.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

- 23:18 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

- 22:17 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

- 21:16 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

- 20:16 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

- 19:19 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

- 05:53 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

- 04:52 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
All movements go too far.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

- 02:51 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
My friends are my estate.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

- 01:51 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
They can conquer who believe they can.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

- 00:50 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

- 23:50 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

- 22:49 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

- 21:49 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once> told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

- 20:48 - Komentari (0) - Isprintaj - #

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Is there life before death?
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

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12.10.2009., ponedjeljak

Our problems are man-made

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11.10.2009., nedjelja

There is always more misery among the lower

My grandmother started walking five miles a day

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

09.10.2009., petak

I am doomed to an eternity

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel

I write because I'm afraid to say some things

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time

He was one of those men

First you survive

A rumor without a leg

The only time to buy these

08.10.2009., četvrtak

Be a good listener

Our patience will achieve

07.10.2009., srijeda

My friend is one

Net is a waste of time

Van's sweater was soaked

From the moment

You create your opportunities

06.10.2009., utorak

Choose the life that is most useful

Nothing contributes

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

By prizing heartfulness

Anger at lies lasts forever

04.10.2009., nedjelja

Keep cool

We are given senses

Nothing takes the taste

A man is too apt

We play the hands

The undertaking

Being in

Be more prompt

I strained

A synonym is a word

03.10.2009., subota

So quick

Then you counterattack

Beware the pull on

one pays for pursuing

Talk sense

We have too many high

Shake off all the fears

All love that has not friendship for its base

I am here for a purpose

Is love supposed to

02.10.2009., petak

The original meal

Let not the sands of time

When you close your doors

We do not believe

You never know