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utorak, 26.10.2010.

The 44 countries with a high human suffering rate--all in Africa, Asia, and Latin America--also had an average annual population increase of 2.8%.

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?
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

A poem is no place for an idea.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

What's another word for Thesaurus?
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.
Someone went upside my head again.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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?
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

I will never forget my first visit to the Bolshoy Theatre.

Well done is better than well said.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

I didn't even breathe.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Because the involvement of family members is important to the recovery process, many programs also offer brief marital counseling and family therapy as part of the treatment process.

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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.
Art is science made clear.
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.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
God creates men, but they choose each other.

The reader has to solve the mystery and decide who the murderer is hand-in-hand with the author.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

All movements go too far.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
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.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

In 1960, an incumbent Vice President, Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president for the first time since 1836.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Eating fruit and vegetables helps to keep us healthy too because they give us fibre, vitamins and minerals.

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.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

His administration rivaled Grant's for corruption, but after Harding died in office, his successor, Calvin Coolidge , was returned over John W. Davis and La Follette.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

srijeda, 20.10.2010.

Newly made whiskey is colorless, the rich brown of the matured liquor being acquired from the cask in which it is stored. Canadian whiskey has a characteristic lightness of body and must, according to law, be produced from cereal grain only.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
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.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
No.

Republicans unseated long-time Democratic incumbents, winning control of both houses of Congress (for the first time since the 1950s) and claiming several governorships.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Another ex-Union general, James A. Garfield , was nominated and was elected over a Democratic general, Winfield S. Hancock.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Meeting people for the first time we always make a judgment based on their appearances though the proverb tells us not to make such a mistake.

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.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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.

Worshippers of Artemis, godess of the moon and hunting, used to place honey cakes on the altars of her temples on her birthday.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

The summer months are June, July and August.

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Memory feeds imagination.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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.
Life is consciousness.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

It is the longest and the widest street in New York.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Both inherited and environmental influences are called "risk factors."

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

It often rains, both in winter and summer.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Moreover, she was an immensely prolific writer.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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.
Love truth, and pardon error.

I adore my home; I like to be there, because it's always filed with happiness and joy.

I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.
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.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

nedjelja, 17.10.2010.

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

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
My friends are my estate.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

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.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

It?s the same size as England.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Each body has its art...
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
They can conquer who believe they can.

It is over 50 feet high.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

The choice of books in our school library is very good. There are many short stories and novels, textbooks and reference books, dictionaries and encyclopedias there.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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.

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.

Who were these clowns?
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

četvrtak, 14.10.2010.

Women have less access to retraining programs than men, while women entrepreneurs are a rarity.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

My mother says that books help us in self-education.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.

In Optics, Euclid attempts to prove the common belief of the time that sight was created by rays coming from the eye, rather than light entering the eye.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

There are some traditions connected with it.

You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
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.

The library is helpful when I have to make a report, when I need information on some subjects.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
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.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
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?

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.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
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.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

I also live in a flat and I can say that all these disadvantages don't bother me very much, and in general it's a good type of housing.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
My home is not a place, it is people.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
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.

Restricting workers' access to alcohol may reduce their drinking.

They weren't wearing insignia.
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!
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Life is consciousness.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

He had luxurious moustaches and he was really proud of them.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
My head rang like a gong.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

The Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez are the sea's northern arms; between them is the Sinai peninsula.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into 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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
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.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Someone went upside my head again.

I seemed to share this attitude with the most other people in Britain.

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

You always pass failure on the way to success.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

A poem is no place for an idea.

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.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
It's never just a game when you're winning.

? Set a drinking goal for yourself. Some people choose to abstain from alcohol, while others prefer to limit the amount they drink.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Another tradition is to send cristmas cards.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
My home is not a place, it is people.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

If you feel that you lack information, knowledge, and words to express your opinions - read more!

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
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.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

A less clearly developed corollary of academic freedom is the obligation of all those who enjoy it to pursue the line of open and thorough inquiry regardless of personal considerations.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

In these postwar elections, the party, always supported by the Grand Army of the Republic , denounced all Democrats as former Copperheads and claimed to have alone saved the Union.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

As a result, you may feel that to seek help is to admit some type of shameful defect in yourself. In fact, however, alcoholism is a disease that is no more a sign of weakness than is asthma or diabetes.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
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.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
I didn't even breathe.
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.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

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.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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!'
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

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.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
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.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
My friends are my estate.

The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you ca

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

La Follette balked at the party's conservatism and when the regulars renominated Taft in 1912, most of the dissidents withdrew and in the Bull

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

utorak, 12.10.2010.

The White House is one of the oldest buildings in the city. It is the president?s residents.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

By 1855 the new party was well launched in the North.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Such people see only dark sides in everything and it prevents them from being happy. But look at other people!

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
No.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
All movements go too far.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

The Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez are the sea's northern arms; between them is the Sinai peninsula.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Overpopulation is often defined as the condition of having more people than can live on Earth in comfort, happiness, and health and still leave the planet a fit place for future generations.

Well done is better than well said.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

ponedjeljak, 11.10.2010.

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.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

The Highlands with thin soil are largely moorland with heather and grasses.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
They weren't wearing insignia.

In Other words, from the beginning of humanity's appearance on earth to 1945, it took more than ten thousand generations to reach a world population of 2 billion people.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.

But it is difficult to buy all books which we want to read.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Agatha Christie's favourite way of murdering was by poisoning.

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 have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Republicans unseated long-time Democratic incumbents, winning control of both houses of Congress (for the first time since the 1950s) and claiming several governorships.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Several million more adults engage in risky drinking patterns that could lead to alcohol problems.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

The poisoning of the world's land, air, and water is the fastest-spreading disease of civilisation.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
The average person thinks he isn't.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.

subota, 09.10.2010.

Have you ever noticed that some people are always grumbling about their endless problems, dissatisfaction in life and even about the dull weather that annoys them?

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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?
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

It is often cold.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

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.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

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 wom

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Happiness is something that lives inside each of us, but not all the people are able to feel it.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

But then Australians decided to build a capital city..

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

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

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

četvrtak, 07.10.2010.

And there they found Guy Fawker about to fire a trail of gunpowder.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Often there is a restaurant, so that it is possible to spend an afternoon and evening there (if you have enough money, of course).

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Our lives teach us who we are.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Six months later, participants reported less work-related stress, higher social support, and less alcohol use compared with a control group. Twenty-two months later, participants reported greater use of coping strategies and less drinking.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
My head rang like a gong.

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.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

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.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
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.
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?
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

? Tolerance: The need for increasing amounts of alcohol in order to get "high."

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

With the election, however, Republican domination of the South and radical rule of the party were definitely ended.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
My friends are my estate.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

The standard whiskeys of the world are Scotch (commonly spelled whisky ), Irish, American, and Canadian.

To try to be better is to be better.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
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.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

As for me, I am a great cinema-goer.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Tropical fruit and flowers grow on the beautiful islands.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

The flat coastal plains of the Red Sea slope gradually to the submarine central trough, more than 2,134 m deep. The sea is dotted with islands (the largest group is the Dahlak Archipelago in the southwest) and with dangerous coral reefs.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

And only in 1606 Dutch sailors reached the shores of the unknown continent, but it was not settled till the English Captain Cook discovered the East Coast in 1770.

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.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

When you are taken away by a thrilling plot and by author's vivid imagination or by his humorous remarks or by the way he portrays people, you can't help reading the book from cover to cover, when the life of a literary character is similar to yours, you

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

srijeda, 06.10.2010.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Living in ancient Alexandria, he wrote The Elements, a geometry textbook used in some places until the twentieth century.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Days are short and nights are long The weather is cold, rivers and lakes are usually frozen.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
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.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
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 ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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.

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
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 never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

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.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.'

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

Worshippers of Artemis, godess of the moon and hunting, used to place honey cakes on the altars of her temples on her birthday.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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?
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

? Loss of control: The frequent inability to stop drinking once a person has begun.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

In the room there is also a wardrobe, a chest of drawers and a fluffy carpet on the floor.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Some programs also link up individuals with vital community resources, such as legal assistance, job training, child care, and parenting classes.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

Some programs also link up individuals with vital community resources, such as legal assistance, job training, child care, and parenting classes.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
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?

In bad times, and in the driest parts, many animals may die for want of water.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

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.

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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Some people make headlines while others make history.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

utorak, 05.10.2010.

Before long Gulliver undertakes another voyage.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.

I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Memory feeds imagination.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.

Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

But days become shorter and nights longer and darker.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

? Have you ever felt you should Cut down on your drinking?

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.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.

When two people meet in the street they will often say something about weather as they pass, just to show their friendliness.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Love truth, and pardon error.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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.

A lack of state financing in social programs has caused further tightening in the labor market, particularly for women.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Passengers must register their tickets, weigh in and register the luggage.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

But the greatest disadvantage of living in a farmhouse or in a cottage, in my opinion, is that it takes much time to get to the nearest town, but if you have a car it isn't a problem for you.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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 very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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.'
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

I love it because the nature wakes up ? trees are in blossom, the green grass grows up, the sun shines, birds sing?beautiful!

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
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.'
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.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

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.'

See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Newt Gingrich , who spearheaded the Republicans' congressional election campaign with his conservative "Contract with America" program, became speaker of the House.

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

nedjelja, 03.10.2010.

Finns like to eat hot sausages and drink beer in the streets; many Philipinos prefer to eat with their hands.

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
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.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

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.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.

They were translated into 136 languages.

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
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.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.

When you visit your health care provider, he or she will ask you a number of questions about your alcohol use to determine whether you are experiencing problems related to your drinking.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Is there life before 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.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

Thanks to books we can talk to people who lived in different countries and ages.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Alcohol Policies.

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.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.

Each passenger of more than 2 years of age has a free luggage allowance.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Who were these clowns?
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I'd learned my lesson.

Air population is a very serious problem.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
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 don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
I never know how much of what I say is true.

However, especially if it is cold and wet outside, many people like to stay at home to watch TV.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
They can conquer who believe they can.
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.

Some of the chapters seem to be written with different styles, and others are geared for different ages, leading one to believe that he inserted other mathematicians' work into his own.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

The choice of books in our school library is very good. There are many short stories and novels, textbooks and reference books, dictionaries and encyclopedias there.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

With the election, however, Republican domination of the South and radical rule of the party were definitely ended.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Never eat more than you can lift.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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.

subota, 02.10.2010.

To my mind those people, who prefer this type of dwelling really adore nature: they want to wake up to songs of birds, to enjoy beautiful landscapes, to breath fresh air or in other words they want to have a calm and measured rhythm of life.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
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.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

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.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
To try to be better is to be better.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
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.
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.

I'm sure that I'm a happy person: I have many friends, loving parents, goals in my life, etc.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Never eat more than you can lift.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
They can conquer who believe they can.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Passengers must register their tickets, weigh in and register the luggage.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I seemed to share this attitude with the most other people in Britain.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Walking is man's best medicine.

Despite the fact that birthrates in the country have been falling, children are obstacles in the labor market.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Eating too much junk food can cause overweight and as heart-disease.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
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.

His administration rivaled Grant's for corruption, but after Harding died in office, his successor, Calvin Coolidge , was returned over John W. Davis and La Follette.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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.

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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

It's celebrated on the 25-th of december.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.

The name was first used by Thomas Jefferson's party, later called the Democratic Republican party or, simply, the Democratic party .

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.'
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.

In Russia the weather is very cold in winter in winter and very warm in summer, people usually wear too much clothes in winter ? warm sweaters, jeans, tights, winter boots and fur-coats, mittens, scarves, hats and other warm things.

There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Today only about 6 per cent of the total land area remains wooded.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
The average person thinks he isn't.
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!
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

All the world's a cage.
Art is science made clear.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Also they think that it is polite to leave a little food on the plate at the end of a meal.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

No.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

petak, 01.10.2010.

Bush secured the presidency with a victory in the electoral college when he won Florida by an extremely narrow margin and outlasted Gore's unsuccessful court challenge of the Florida vote-counting process.

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.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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 lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.

? Loss of control: The frequent inability to stop drinking once a person has begun.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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!
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
So little time and so little to do.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Euclid then replied, "There is no royal road to geometry," and sent one of the most powerful kings of his time off to study.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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?
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

The 44 countries with a high human suffering rate--all in Africa, Asia, and Latin America--also had an average annual population increase of 2.8%.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Never eat more than you can lift.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

It doesn't matter what kind of book it is.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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!'
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

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.
We are what we repeatedly do.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
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.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.