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srijeda, 27.07.2011.

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

His work in geometry provided the foundation on which all future mathematicians were educated.

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.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

This work made a great sensation in Ireland as well as in England, it equally strirred the interests of those in politics as well as the readers of novels.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
The 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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

As one of my friends says if you are not a handicapped person you are a really lucky and happy one.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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.'
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.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Each body has its art...
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

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

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Never eat more than you can lift.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.'

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.

I'd learned my lesson.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
My friends are my estate.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Those include Data, Optics, Phaenomena, and On Division of Figures.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.
So little time and so little to do.
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.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.
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.

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

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

They weren't wearing insignia.
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?
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.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

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.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Someone went upside my head again.
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.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
My home is not a place, it is people.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

The flat coastal plains of the Red Sea slope gradually to the submarine central trough, more than 2,134 m deep. The sea is dotted with islands (the largest group is the Dahlak Archipelago in the southwest) and with dangerous coral reefs.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Maybe they were terrorists!
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

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.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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?

They found a high correlation between the level of human suffering and the rate of population increase in countries. The 30 countries falling in the extreme human-suffering range--all in Africa and Asia--averaged a high annual rate of population increase

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

It tells of the adventures of ship surgeon, as related by himself and divided into four parts of four voyages: 1. A voyage to Liliput. 2. A voyage to Brobdignag. 3. A voyage to Laputa. 4. A voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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?
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.'
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
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.
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.
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.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
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.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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.

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

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

The name reappeared in the 1850s, when the present-day Republican party was founded.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

petak, 22.07.2011.

quantity of peat employed in curing the malt, manner of distilling

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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 car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.

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

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

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.

Even the best of friends need time apart.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Memory feeds imagination.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
A joke's a very serious thing.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

Also he gave me some sulfa pills, a slip for X-Ray and blood examination.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
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.
My head rang like a gong.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Never eat more than you can lift.

Our flat is very warm and cosy, so it makes any person feel at home.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

In the course of time, much forest land was cleared and almost all Lowlands outside the industrial areas were put under cultivation.

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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Who were these clowns?
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.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

Everybody enjoys the cloudless sky and bright sun.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

While bills were passed on the key program components, many items were thwarted or defeated in Congress or by the president.

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.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

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

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
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.

You can any types of food in restaurants ý you can try homemade cakes, beefsteaks, pasta and macaroni and others.

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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
All movements go too far.

The room is always filled with the sounds of music.

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.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

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

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
All movements go too far.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

I'm sure that home of a person is as much a reflection of his personality, as the clothes he wears, the food he eats, the books he reads and the friends he spends his time with.

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.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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.'
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.
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.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

The scientific method of analyzing data and establishing hypotheses, a vital concomitant of academic freedom, was initiated during the Enlightenment , mainly by scholars outside university life such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Voltaire.

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.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

The biggest threat to the coastline is pollution. Even much-loved.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

The weather in Britain changes very quickly. One day may be fine and the next day may be wet.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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.

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

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

British people say: "Other countries have a climate, in England we have weather."

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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.
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.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
The best way out is always through.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Many of the rivers are "biologically dead", i.e. unable to support fish and wildlife.

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.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

The Republican victory with Herbert C.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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.

To some, population regulation is a violation of their deep religious beliefs.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Vigorous writing is concise.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

The average person thinks he isn't.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I'd learned my lesson.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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.

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.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
A joke's a very serious thing.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

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