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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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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'.

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.

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.