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srijeda, 27.07.2011.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
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.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

There are many other works of Euclid which appear to be lost to time, but his primary work in The Elements is what made him famous.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

And non-governmental charity organizations become a single source for support of such projects.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

While AA is generally recognized as an effective mutual help program for recovering alcoholics, not everyone responds to AA's style and message, and other recovery approaches are available.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

The sky is always dull and overcast and it often rains, so there are pools on roads and cars splash the water on the passers-by.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only th

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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Vigorous writing is concise.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.

I know all the famous script writers, producers and cameramen.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

As for me, I am a great cinema-goer.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
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.'
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.'
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Despite promises about sharing the world's wealth, the gap between the rich and poor has been getting larger since 1960.

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Less than a hundred years ago, there was nothing except sheep in Canberra.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

petak, 22.07.2011.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

March, April and May are spring months.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

Euclid responded by giving the small child a coin, saying that "he must make gain out of what he learns."

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

The average person thinks he isn't.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
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.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Films are placed in one of three categories in Britain. "U" - suitable for everybody, "A" - more suitable for adults, "X" - suitable only for adults.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

ý Continued drinking despite having ongoing relationship problems that are caused or worsened by the effects of alcohol.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Scotch, but no peat is used in the curing, and instead of the dry, somewhat smoky flavor of Scotch, it has a full, sweet taste.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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'.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
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.

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, char

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Also in summer many people leave their cities and spend much time in the country or at the seaside.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

"We cannot continue to use our seas as a dustbin and expect our coastline to survive," says Greenpeace.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

In 1972, President Nixon was triumphantly reelected, defeating George McGovern on a record of favoring a strong defense with a limited detente with the Soviet Union and China, and a conservative domestic program featuring a decentralization of political

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Those, who prefer to stay at home may spend their free time, watching TV, listening to the radio.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

My mother showed me the boxes, the pitm the dress-circle, the tieres and balconies.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

We can hardly say that today there exist the problem of choosing a type of housing.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Walking is man's best medicine.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Agatha Christie lived between 1890 and 1976. She started writing stories at a very early age, at first to entertain herself.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

I like to come to hte cinema a couple of minutes before the movie starts.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in 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.
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.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Letýs reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, letýs keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
We are what we repeatedly do.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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 used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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.
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 freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Some 230 kinds of birds live in Britain, and another 200 are regular visitors, many are songbirds.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

Itýs not surprising that more holiday-makers come to Queensland every year.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

In Other words, from the beginning of humanity's appearance on earth to 1945, it took more than ten thousand generations to reach a world population of 2 billion people.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
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?
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

His work was translated into Latin and Arabic, and was first printed in mass quantity in 1482, ten years before Columbus, but 1800 years AFTER it was written! From that point until the early 1900's, The Elements was considered by far the best geometry tex

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.

All books are arranged in alphabetical order.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
The average person thinks he isn't.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Memory feeds imagination.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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

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.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

I'd learned my lesson.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

For most people, alcohol is a pleasant accompaniment to social activities.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
I stand in awe of my body.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

To try to be better is to be better.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

His work in geometry led to discovery after discovery in history, and provided the basis for mathematical education for 2000 years.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Britain was originally a land of vast forests.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

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?
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
They weren't wearing insignia.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
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 write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

Do you want to be an organizer of other people's activities?

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Winter temperatures below 10 degrees are rare.

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 didn't even breathe.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

Miss Marple was absolutely opposite to Poirot.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

I didn't even breathe.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
To try to be better is to be better.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

This defection by the mugwumps illustrated the lack of real issues between the two parties; it was the man and not the party that counted.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

More than one-half of the 294 workers attended the sessions. Researchers based their results on data from 120 employees who completed prestudy and poststudy evaluations.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

In the case of scholars, whose occupation is directly involved with that right, the concept of academic freedom generally includes the property right of tenure of office (see tenure , in education). Essential to the acceptance of the concept of academic f

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

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

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

There is not much rain, and drought is a constant anxiety.

It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.