srijeda, 23.06.2010.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
I 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.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
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.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
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I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
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They are also ready to give all necessary information.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
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Generally belligerent toward the South, the Republicans were regarded by Southerners with mingled hatred and fear as sectional tension increased.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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Because of differing concepts of carrying capacity, however, experts differ widely over what level of population is considered too high.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
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That's why we get books in public libraries.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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!'
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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ponedjeljak, 21.06.2010.
As you have some land around the house you can build outhouses; and if I lived in a detached house I would certainly build a garage, a summer house, maybe a padding pool and certainly I would arrange some flowerbeds as I adore flowers.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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The weather is getting warmer and warmer, everything changes and reborn.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
History is more or less bunk.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
'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.
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.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
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'.
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.
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It's celebrated on the 25-th of december.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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Over 3 billion books by Agatha Christie were sold worldwide.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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!
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.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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All the world's a cage.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
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But New South Wales has more than cities.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Maybe they were terrorists!
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.
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.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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nedjelja, 20.06.2010.
In addition, supervisors were under constant pressure to keep production moving and were motivated to discipline employees for drinking only if the drinking was compromising production or jeopardizing safety. Workers' knowledge that policies were rarely e
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
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.'
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
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.
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.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
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I like to come to hte cinema a couple of minutes before the movie starts.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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Tropical fruit and flowers grow on the beautiful islands.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
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.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
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They have a higher flavor and a much deeper color than Scotch or Irish and require from two to three years longer to mature.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
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Although it contains 13 volumes, much of the work may not be Euclid's.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
The best way out is always through.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
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petak, 18.06.2010.
In Britain the choice of films is limited to young people.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
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.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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Walking is man's best medicine.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
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You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat 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!
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
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Amounts large and famous American cities are Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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'.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
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!'
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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.
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A smiling face is half the meal.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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Is leisure time of great importance to you? Is the size of your salary important?
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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.
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.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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The national academy of sciences and the library of congress are in Washington too.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
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You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
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Now I like to read books on science, history and biology.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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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 ad
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
I am not young enough to know everything.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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Cereals and grains are important for us because they provide us with the energy we need for physical activity.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Love truth, and pardon error.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
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That means that it is never too hot or too cold. Winters are extremely mild.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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In the United States this is known as moonshining.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
I'd learned my lesson.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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četvrtak, 10.06.2010.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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I stand in awe of my body.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Yet it is important to recognize that aspects of a person's environment, such as peer influences and the availability of alcohol, also are significant influences.
I'd learned my lesson.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Memory feeds imagination.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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Many developing countries, such as India, Egypt, Nigeria, Lybia, etc have excellent hotels.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
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This work made a great sensation in Ireland as well as in England, it equally strirred the interests of those in politics as well as the readers of novels.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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utorak, 08.06.2010.
Another ex-Union general, James A. Garfield , was nominated and was elected over a Democratic general, Winfield S. Hancock.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.'
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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Every year, thousands of tourists visit Ayers Rock and a strange group of huge red stones called ?the Olgas?.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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?
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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The illicit manufacture of whiskey to avoid payment of excise taxes has been common.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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They were translated into 136 languages.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Is there life before death?
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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.
No.
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Choosing a comfortable hotel to stay at is, therefore, a matter of some importance.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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Hot winds blow from the north: cold winds blow from the south.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We are what we repeatedly do.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
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.'
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To most environmentalists, the data suggest that the planet is already overpopulated.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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.
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The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
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.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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However, Dewey, the party's first unsuccessful candidate ever to be renominated, was defeated by a close margin.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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.
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What is alcoholism, exactly?
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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? Genetic research: Scientists are now studying 3,000 individuals from several hundred families with a history of alcoholism in order to pinpoint the location of genes that influence vulnerability to alcoholism.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.
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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
All movements go too far.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
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.
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The name was first used by Thomas Jefferson's party, later called the Democratic Republican party or, simply, the Democratic party .
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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Hoover and the Republicans were blamed for the disastrous economic depression that soon enveloped the country, and the Democrats, under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, were swept into office in 1932.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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Do you want to be an organizer of other people's activities?
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
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 average person thinks he isn't.
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And if your house is not just a building for you but a place that you can call home, it means that you want to stay there as long as possible and it's a place where you always want to return to.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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The highest buildings are Impure State Building and the united national building.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
To try to be better is to be better.
08.06.2010. u 02:20 •
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I consider that books are with us during all our life.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
08.06.2010. u 02:16 •
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Most of the crimes were committed in some closed surroundings with a limited number of people to suspect.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
08.06.2010. u 02:15 •
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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?
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
08.06.2010. u 01:58 •
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She is popular for ingenuity of plots, which are classical murder mysteries: marooned places and a well-mannered murderer.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
All the world's a cage.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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.
08.06.2010. u 01:29 •
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Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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.
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.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
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.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
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.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
08.06.2010. u 00:37 •
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That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
08.06.2010. u 00:24 •
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The weather is the favourite topic of conversation in Britain.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
People fail forward to success.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.