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srijeda, 27.07.2011.

The weather is not the same in different countries.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
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.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

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.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

On Trafalgar Square, in the center of London stands a big cristmas tree.It is a gift from the people of Oslo.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

Watch the electric sign flashes when you are on board, when the "Fasten Seat Belts" sign goes on do it promptly and also obey the "No Smoking" signal.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

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.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
My head rang like a gong.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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!'
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.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

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.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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!'

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

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.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
'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.
A smiling face is half the meal.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Keep in mind, too, that every day that a recovering alcoholic has stayed sober prior to a relapse is extremely valuable time, both to the individual and to his or her family.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Is there life before death?
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

People fail forward to success.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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.'
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
To try to be better is to be better.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

The cakes were round like the full moon and lit with tapers.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

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 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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

It is usually warm, so people go outside more often and enjoy spring blue sky.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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.
All movements go too far.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

petak, 22.07.2011.

Try to answer these questions as fully and honestly as you can.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

Proponents of population regulation believe this is caused by a combination of population growth and unwillingness of the wealthy to share the world's wealth and resources more fairly.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

In the 4'th part Swift describes Gulliver's adventures at the Heuyhnhnms - a ideal land where were is neither sickness, dishonesty, non any of the frivo-lities of human scociety.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

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.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
He who laughs, lasts!
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
People fail forward to success.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

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.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Is there life before death?
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Many families celebrate cristmas day in the open air near the cristmas tree in order to catch the spirit of cristmas.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
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.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
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.
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.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with 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?

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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.
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.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

We should eat fats and sugars in moderation, because too much fats and sugars can cause different heart-diseases.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
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.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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 best way out is always through.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

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

I was sick of cars driving right past me.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

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.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

There is wide variation in the existence of alcohol policies, in employees' awareness of them, and in their enforcement in workplaces across the country.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

'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.
Walking is man's best medicine.
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.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

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.

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

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

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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.

In addition, approximately 53 percent of men and women in Russian Federation report that one or more of their close relatives have a drinking problem.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
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.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
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.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

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.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
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.

To proponents of population regulation, it is unethical for us not to encourage a sharp drop in birth rates and unsustainable forms of resource use to prevent a sharp rise in death rates and human misery and a decrease in Earth's biodiversity in the futu

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Someone went upside my head again.
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.
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.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
It's never just a game when you're winning.

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 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.
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.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

The closing of the canal after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the building of pipelines to the Mediterranean Sea, and the construction of supertankers too large for the canal diminished the sea's importance as a commercial artery, especially for petroleum.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
People fail forward to success.
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.

It is surrounded by exceedingly hot and dry deserts and steppes; the summer water temperature exceeds 85F (29C), and the water has a high salt content.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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 often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

On another occasion, a student of his questioned the value of learning geometry, much like students today.

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

An even greater environmental threat are nuclear power stations.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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!

He said that is was a light case of the flu and told me to stay in bed and to have a rest.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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.
Who were these clowns?

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Walking is man's best medicine.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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.
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.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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 it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
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.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
My home is not a place, it is people.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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.
Who were these clowns?
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Autumn is the season of fruit and vegetables, lots of people pick mushrooms up in the forest and dry them for winter.

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.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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.
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.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

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.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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