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petak, 18.03.2011.

There are more than a dozen very good orchestras in Britain and some of them are world famous.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

The English also say that they have three variants of weather: when it rains in the morning, when it rains in the afternoon or when in rains all day long. Sometimes it rains so heavily that they say "It's raining cats and dogs".

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
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'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

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.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

Treatment may include detoxification (the process of safely getting alcohol out of one's system); taking doctor-prescribed medications, such as disulfiram or naltrexone, to help prevent a return to drinking once drinking has stopped; and individual and/o

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

An idea is salvation by imagination.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
My home is not a place, it is people.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
My friends are my estate.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

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

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

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

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

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

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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

The center of the city is on Capital Hill. This building houses both the senate and a House of Representatives.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.

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.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

However, she managed to become famous. Not many people know that she used to write under a pen-name of Mary Westmacott.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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!
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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.

srijeda, 09.03.2011.

I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

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 mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

his novel was written many years ago, but it is popular nowadays.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Life is consciousness.
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.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

My favourite film is ... with ... starring. It is really wonderful from the beginning to the end.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.

Amounts large and famous American cities are Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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.

My choice of this occupation didn't come as a sudden flash.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
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!'
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.
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.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

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

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
I didn't even breathe.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Vigorous writing is concise.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

They join and support various international organosation and green parties.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

In the British homes there has been no central heating up till recently.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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.

No.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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.

Do not forget your personal effects when leaving the plane.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Is there life before death?

Her room is very cool and light, there are plenty of flowers here, as she has a green thumb.

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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.
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.

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