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petak, 09.10.2009.

The two symbols of the Republican Party

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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!
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

09.10.2009. u 22:33 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Do not have an opinion while you listen

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.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
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.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

09.10.2009. u 21:34 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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.

09.10.2009. u 21:33 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Experience is that marvelous thing that

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

09.10.2009. u 20:32 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise

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.
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.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

09.10.2009. u 19:31 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Calamities are of two kinds

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
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.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
My home is not a place, it is people.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

09.10.2009. u 01:26 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Van's sweater

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

09.10.2009. u 00:25 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

četvrtak, 08.10.2009.

Difficulties are meant to rouse

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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.

08.10.2009. u 23:24 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

There is no stigma attached

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

08.10.2009. u 22:24 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

We are what we repeatedly do

We are what we repeatedly do.
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.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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.

08.10.2009. u 21:40 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

srijeda, 07.10.2009.

Better by far

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
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.
I didn't even breathe.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.

07.10.2009. u 23:29 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I guess we'd be living

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

07.10.2009. u 22:28 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I am free of all prejudice

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.'
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

07.10.2009. u 21:27 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Man is the only animal

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once> told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
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.

07.10.2009. u 20:27 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

If you think taking care

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
All the world's a cage.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

07.10.2009. u 19:26 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

ponedjeljak, 05.10.2009.

What counts is not necessarily

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

05.10.2009. u 23:17 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

throw all the paint

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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 is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.

05.10.2009. u 22:17 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The people who are regarded

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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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.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

05.10.2009. u 21:16 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Electricity is actually made

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

05.10.2009. u 20:15 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

AND the bad

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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'.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

05.10.2009. u 19:14 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

nedjelja, 04.10.2009.

Repetition does not transform

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

04.10.2009. u 23:50 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

those who have

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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
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.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

04.10.2009. u 22:50 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

trust yourself

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

04.10.2009. u 21:49 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Joy is love

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

04.10.2009. u 20:48 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

She got her

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Walking is man's best medicine.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

04.10.2009. u 19:48 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

subota, 03.10.2009.

The problem is never how to get new

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
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.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

03.10.2009. u 05:47 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The reward of a thing

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

03.10.2009. u 04:47 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

it is excellent to have

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.

03.10.2009. u 03:46 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

who are almost unique

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

03.10.2009. u 02:45 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

We are made to persist

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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?
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
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.
No.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

03.10.2009. u 01:45 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Memory feeds imagination.

Memory feeds imagination.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

03.10.2009. u 00:44 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

petak, 02.10.2009.

Love truth, and pardon error

Love truth, and pardon error.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

02.10.2009. u 23:44 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

02.10.2009. u 22:43 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The radical of one century

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.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
My friends are my estate.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

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I'm struck by the insidious

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

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Clean out a corner

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Where facts are few, experts are many.

01.10.2009. u 06:27 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It is your work

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

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The mellow sweetness

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
To try to be better is to be better.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

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My father hated

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
We are what we repeatedly do.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

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Man is distinguished

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

01.10.2009. u 03:24 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Income tax returns

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

01.10.2009. u 02:23 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The most important

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

01.10.2009. u 01:22 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Ordinarily he was insane

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
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.

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