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srijeda, 30.09.2009.

You cannot be mad at somebody

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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!
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

30.09.2009. u 07:41 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Be thou the first

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

30.09.2009. u 06:40 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Now is the time

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
No.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.

30.09.2009. u 05:40 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

When you make a mistake

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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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.'

30.09.2009. u 04:39 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The only way to get rid

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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 stand in awe of my body.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
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.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

30.09.2009. u 03:39 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

hate to advocate drugs

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

30.09.2009. u 02:38 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Go often to the house

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
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.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
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!
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

30.09.2009. u 01:37 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Being in politics is like being

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.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

30.09.2009. u 00:36 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

utorak, 29.09.2009.

more enthusiastic about

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

29.09.2009. u 07:44 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

never quite believed

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
My friends are my estate.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

29.09.2009. u 07:26 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Repetition does

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
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.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

29.09.2009. u 06:25 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It is wonderful

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

29.09.2009. u 05:24 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It is not much

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

29.09.2009. u 04:24 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Sometimes I've believed

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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?

29.09.2009. u 03:23 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

We cannot deny

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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.

29.09.2009. u 02:23 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

There are admirable

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.'
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.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

29.09.2009. u 01:41 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

nedjelja, 27.09.2009.

Why do writers write

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
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's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
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.

27.09.2009. u 06:07 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not

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.
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.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.

27.09.2009. u 05:18 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

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

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
They can conquer who believe they can.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

27.09.2009. u 05:06 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next

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.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Art is science made clear.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

27.09.2009. u 04:05 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

God creates men

God creates men, but they choose each other.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

27.09.2009. u 03:07 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

See things as they are and write about them

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.
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.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

27.09.2009. u 03:04 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
Memory feeds imagination.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

27.09.2009. u 02:04 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control,

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Our lives teach us who we are.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

27.09.2009. u 01:07 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

petak, 25.09.2009.

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger

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.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 07:33 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Only some people get what they want.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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?
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 06:50 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering

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!
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 06:31 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Good breeding consists

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
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.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 05:50 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right

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?
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 05:30 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once> told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 04:59 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Fix reason firmly in her seat

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.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 04:29 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Never eat more than you can lift.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 03:58 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

četvrtak, 24.09.2009.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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 is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

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LJ

24.09.2009. u 05:49 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I never know how much of what I say is true.

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LJ

24.09.2009. u 03:49 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Guard your honor.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

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LJ

24.09.2009. u 01:48 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

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LJ

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srijeda, 23.09.2009.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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LJ

23.09.2009. u 23:57 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

utorak, 22.09.2009.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Facts are the enemy of truth.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
No.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

22.09.2009. u 07:06 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter

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.
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 write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Each body has its art...
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 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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

22.09.2009. u 06:05 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

History is more or less bunk.

History is more or less bunk.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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 feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

22.09.2009. u 06:04 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

22.09.2009. u 05:07 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Beginning today

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.