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petak, 09.10.2009.

I guess we'd be living in a boring

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
I'd learned my lesson.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

09.10.2009. u 23:12 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Good company and good discourse

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.'
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.
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'.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

09.10.2009. u 22:11 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Sorrow was like the wind

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

09.10.2009. u 21:10 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

You create your opportunities by asking for them

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Well done is better than well said.
My head rang like a gong.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

09.10.2009. u 20:10 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Always be nice to those younger

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

09.10.2009. u 19:09 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Laughter is supposed

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone’s feelings or ignoring truth.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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 real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

09.10.2009. u 01:13 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Our own physical

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

09.10.2009. u 00:13 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

četvrtak, 08.10.2009.

Never part without

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
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.

08.10.2009. u 23:12 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Van was screaming

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

08.10.2009. u 22:11 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Dance is the hidden

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

08.10.2009. u 21:37 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

srijeda, 07.10.2009.

Money doesn't always bring happiness

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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.

07.10.2009. u 23:36 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

History is indeed

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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!
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

07.10.2009. u 22:36 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Happiness lies in the joy

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

07.10.2009. u 21:35 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Ordinarily he was insane

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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.

07.10.2009. u 20:35 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Nothing in the world

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.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
I stand in awe of my body.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

07.10.2009. u 19:33 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

utorak, 06.10.2009.

Your world

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.'
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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 not young enough to know everything.
History is more or less bunk.

06.10.2009. u 04:06 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The meeting of two

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

06.10.2009. u 03:05 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Insanity in individuals

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

06.10.2009. u 02:04 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Poets have been mysteriously silent

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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.

06.10.2009. u 01:03 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I say is true

I never know how much of what I say is true.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

06.10.2009. u 00:02 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

ponedjeljak, 05.10.2009.

Use what you have

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

05.10.2009. u 04:39 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

We don't know

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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.
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.
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.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

05.10.2009. u 03:39 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Do not believe

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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

05.10.2009. u 02:38 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

As a scientist

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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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.

05.10.2009. u 01:37 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

To be loved without

My home is not a place, it is people.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Memory feeds imagination.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

05.10.2009. u 00:37 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

subota, 03.10.2009.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
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.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

03.10.2009. u 05:25 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Patriotism is your conviction that this

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.

03.10.2009. u 04:23 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
My home is not a place, it is people.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

03.10.2009. u 03:22 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Do not believe that he who seeks

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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!
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
No.

03.10.2009. u 02:24 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

We inhereit from our ancestors

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.
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.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

03.10.2009. u 01:22 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The place of the father

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
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.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

03.10.2009. u 00:21 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

petak, 02.10.2009.

That would be a good thing

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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 world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
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.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

02.10.2009. u 23:20 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Man is distinguished from

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

02.10.2009. u 22:20 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Our problems are man-made

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.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

02.10.2009. u 21:19 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Walking is man's best medicine

Walking is man's best medicine.
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.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Love truth, and pardon error.
All the world's a cage.
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?
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

02.10.2009. u 20:19 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

četvrtak, 01.10.2009.

The moment we begin

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 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.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
My friends are my estate.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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We are able

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
They can conquer who believe they can.
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.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

01.10.2009. u 06:06 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Men of genius

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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.

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Illusions are art

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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 reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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Order is not pressure

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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 advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

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Nothing is so awesomely

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

01.10.2009. u 02:03 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

grown to realize

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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 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.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

01.10.2009. u 01:03 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It's not the hours

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
My home is not a place, it is people.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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.

01.10.2009. u 00:02 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

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