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utorak, 29.06.2010.

Also I had a splitting headache and a cough.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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 meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Acknowledging that help is needed for an alcohol problem may not be easy.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
All the world's a cage.
They can conquer who believe they can.

Meeting people for the first time we always make a judgment based on their appearances though the proverb tells us not to make such a mistake.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

By 1855 the new party was well launched in the North.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
People fail forward to success.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.

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

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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.

I am not particulaly fond of the cinema.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
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.
Never eat more than you can lift.
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.

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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

I often read for pleasure and sometimes for information.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

This involves taking a realistic view of your strengths and weaknesses.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Alcohol abuse differs from alcoholism in that it does not include an extremely strong craving for alcohol, loss of control, or physical dependence.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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.

His administration rivaled Grant's for corruption, but after Harding died in office, his successor, Calvin Coolidge , was returned over John W. Davis and La Follette.

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.
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.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

He or she is frequently in the grip of a powerful craving for alcohol, a need that can feel as strong as the need for food or water.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

petak, 25.06.2010.

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.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizin

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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Kalgorlie still exports some gold, but new gold of Western Australia is wheat.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Eating fruit and vegetables helps to keep us healthy too because they give us fibre, vitamins and minerals.

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.
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.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

četvrtak, 24.06.2010.

There are no deserts in Tasmania.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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.

Hoover and the Republicans were blamed for the disastrous economic depression that soon enveloped the country, and the Democrats, under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, were swept into office in 1932.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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.'
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

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.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
A joke's a very serious thing.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Oak, elm, ash, and beech are the commonest trees in England, while Scotland has much pine and birch.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
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 coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

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.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

There are four seasons in a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter. December, January and February are winter months.

The best way out is always through.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.

They believe that the land itself has life.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

The availability and accessibility of alcohol may influence employee drinking.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

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

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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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 prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

By the time Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the number had doubled again, to I billion.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

The average person thinks he isn't.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

srijeda, 23.06.2010.

To be a well prepared engineer I should have some important qualities: great capability persistance, knowledge of science and, of course, knowledge of foreign languages.

Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Memory feeds imagination.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

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.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Yesavage and Leirer (20) found evidence of impairment 14 hours after pilots reached blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) of between 0.10 percent and 0.12 percent.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

In the United States this is known as moonshining.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Britain has no good coal now and imports it itself.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

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

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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.

By the time Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the number had doubled again, to I billion.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
I'd learned my lesson.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

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

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
They can conquer who believe they can.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
They weren't wearing insignia.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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.

nedjelja, 20.06.2010.

Currently, nearly 30 million Russians - abuse alcohol or are alcoholic.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
People fail forward to success.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
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.

To try to be better is to be better.

I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

A further point to consider is how far you will be willing to do for a time things which you do not like knowing that they are necessary to achive your longer term objectives.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

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.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.

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

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

I applauded so much, that my hands ached.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

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

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The national museum, the old and new national galleries of art, Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln memorials are among the city sites.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
We are what we repeatedly do.

subota, 19.06.2010.

I don?t like to wear a lot of warm clothes, that is why my favorite season is spring.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

If your health care professional concludes that you may be dependent on alcohol, he or she may recommend that you see a specalist in diagnosing and treating alcoholism.

They weren't wearing insignia.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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?
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

If I had a chance to go to some English - speaking country I would like to go to Australia.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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 most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

The English also say that they have three variants of weather: when it rains in the morning, when it rains in the afternoon or when in rains all day long. Sometimes it rains so heavily that they say "It's raining cats and dogs".

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

All movements go too far.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
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.'
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
All the world's a cage.
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.
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.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I 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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

petak, 18.06.2010.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.

The Bass Strait, of the coast of Victoria, has been one of the country?s biggest oil fields for many years.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

If you feel that you lack information, knowledge, and words to express your opinions - read more!

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

The reader has to solve the mystery and decide who the murderer is hand-in-hand with the author.

We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Is there life before death?
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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.

When I was a child my parents read them to me.

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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.

utorak, 08.06.2010.

The farther north you go, the hotter it gets.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.