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petak, 25.06.2010.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

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.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
A joke's a very serious thing.

He was taught at The Academy in Athens, founded by Plato, and probably tutored another great mathematician, Archimedes.

Someone went upside my head again.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

I think that books can help us. Last year I read a very interesting book "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Someone went upside my head again.

While on shore Gulliver is captured by the giants.

Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Someone went upside my head again.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Alcohol Availability.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

The highest buildings are Impure State Building and the united national building.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
I am not young enough to know everything.

utorak, 22.06.2010.

Books... I think that we can't live without them.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

79 shot stories, 4 non-fiction ones and 19 plays were written by that strange woman.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

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.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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!

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
A smiling face is half the meal.

Sometimes after a long journey I return home with such pleasure and happiness, that I feel myself like a baby that returns to its mother.

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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
My friends are my estate.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The average person thinks he isn't.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

To minorities, population regulation is sometimes seen as a form of genocide to keep their numbers and power from rising.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
I stand in awe of my body.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
It's never just a game when you're winning.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
To try to be better is to be better.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

subota, 19.06.2010.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

This novel was published at the beginning of the 20th century.

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happines

Vigorous writing is concise.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

petak, 18.06.2010.

Now there are many books in the shops.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.'

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
My home is not a place, it is people.

In the 2000 elections, the party's presidential nominee, George W. Bush appeared generally to lead in the polls in what ultimately became a popular-vote loss to Democrat Al Gore.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
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.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
They can conquer who believe they can.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Now we were descending just as steeply.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

However, legislation itself creates only a certain legal environment, certain conditions for equality, but does not ensure their fulfillment.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

I remember, I liked thick books.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Well done is better than well said.

It is my aim to be a qualified specialist and to serve the interests of my country.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

My mother fixed me a hot lemonade but that didn't help me much.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

The influence of literature on people's mind is great.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

The Mediterranean is already nearly dead; the North Sea is following.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

When the sun shines, the air of the Blue Mountains is a real, beautiful blue.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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?

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Campaigning against the domestic policy of the Truman administration and its prosecution of the war in Korea, Eisenhower swept to a landslide victory over the Democratic candidate, Adlai E. Stevenson .

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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Vigorous writing is concise.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Depression and World War II

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.

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.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

When the sun shines, the air of the Blue Mountains is a real, beautiful blue.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

četvrtak, 10.06.2010.

Acknowledging that help is needed for an alcohol problem may not be easy.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.