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petak, 08.04.2011.

She wanted to give me some aspirin tablets too, but there weren't any in our house.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
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.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

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.'
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
The best way out is always through.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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 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.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

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.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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.

He or she can help you determine whether you have a drinking problem and, if so, recommend the best course of action for you.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Is there life before death?
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.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
They can conquer who believe they can.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.

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

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Well done is better than well said.

Others opposed to population regulation feel that all people should have the freedom to have as many children as they want.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
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.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

If little has ever been made of Euclid's life, then the opposite is true of his book.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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.
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 moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

To some, population regulation is a violation of their deep religious beliefs.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

At first, nobody wanted to live there because it was used as a prison where the British government would send British prisoners.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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.
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.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

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.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
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.
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.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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 phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

Isolationists held the upper hand in the party before World War II, and in 1940 two Republicans, Henry L.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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.
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 release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The ship anchors near the land of the giants to take in a supply of water.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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'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.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

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.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
No.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

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