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nedjelja, 27.06.2010.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

A joke's a very serious thing.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

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.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Someone went upside my head again.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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."

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
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?
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
We are what we repeatedly do.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

One famous man said: "The nature doesn't have bad weather?, so in my opinion we should like all seasons, because every season is beautiful in its own way.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

Well, as for me I do respect their eating habits and like to eat different countries? food such as Italian Pasta, Japanese rice with sushi or Indian spicy meat.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford 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.

If you take to reading, the world of other people's ideas and problems becomes familiar to you.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

I like to get presents on my birthday. I am happy if it is a book.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

The party, however, won the Congressional elections of 1918, and Republican opposition was a large factor in defeating Wilson's peace program.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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.
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.

Extensive forests remain in eastern and northern Scotland and in south-eastern and western England.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Many other ecological problems may be caused by privatization of the coast.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

First, there?s real kind ? the kind that comes out of the ground.

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.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
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.'

An even greater environmental threat are nuclear power stations.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

They weren't wearing insignia.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

It was one of my brightest memories.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

I often read for pleasure and sometimes for information.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

subota, 26.06.2010.

From a legal point of view, a man and a woman in Russia are equal.

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?
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

But these places are also holy to the Aboriginals.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
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.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

The driest period is from March to June and the wettest months are from October to January.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Is there life before death?
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
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.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The novel describes the tragic fate of a boy and a girl, Clyde and Roberta by name. It is a sad story.

Even the best of friends need time apart.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
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.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

četvrtak, 24.06.2010.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

It has a lot of advantages: first of all your neighbours can never disturb you.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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.

Some project that if everyone existed at a minimum survival level, the earth could support 20 to 48 billion people.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

They call for MDCs to use their economic systems to reward population regulation and sustainable forms of economic growth instead of continuing their unsustainable forms of economic growth and encouraging LDCs to follow this eventually unsustainable and d

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

My whole body ached.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
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?
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I had a running nose and a sore throat.

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Is there life before death?
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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?
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

I think it is necessary to follow these rules.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

srijeda, 23.06.2010.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

They see people overpopulation in MDCs (more developed countries) as threats to Earth's life support systems for us and other species.

An idea is salvation by imagination.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Agatha Christie was sure the world's best selling crime writer.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
An idea is salvation by imagination.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I'd learned my lesson.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
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.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
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.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

utorak, 22.06.2010.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

? Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?

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 Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

In the United States the early colleges were also religiously controlled, and there are still some denominational schools that define areas of inquiry.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

While alcohol abuse is basically different from alcoholism, it is important to note that many effects of alcohol abuse are also experienced by alcoholics.

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Such people see only dark sides in everything and it prevents them from being happy. But look at other people!

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

There are promising types of counseling that teach recovering alcoholics to identify situations and feelings that trigger the urge to drink and to find new ways to cope that do not include alcohol use.

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.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

petak, 18.06.2010.

In fact, it?s the best known place in Australia.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

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.

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!'
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

The air above the forest contains millions of microscopic drops of eucalyptus oil.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by 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.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Limited work supervision, often a problem on evening shifts, has been associated with employee alcohol problems.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
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.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

Sometimes you can depend on your neighbours - imagine such a situation: your neighbours' tap is dripping and they need it to be repaired, so they block the water supply not only in their own flat but also in yours and you have to wait for hours till you c

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Women's social status is a serious problem.

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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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.
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.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

They believe that the land itself has life.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

However, even individuals who are determined to stay sober may suffer one or several "slips," or relapses, before achieving long-term sobriety.

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.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.

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!
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
I didn't even breathe.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.'
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
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.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Gold was found in Kalgoorlie in1893, and the ?Golden Mile? was for a time the most expensive piece of land in the world.

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.
Is there life before death?
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

It is a good idea to begin by attempting to define in clear terms what your requirements are from a career.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

četvrtak, 10.06.2010.

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.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
It's never just a game when you're winning.