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četvrtak, 24.02.2011.

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
My home is not a place, it is people.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

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.
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.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

In ancient times books were written by hand.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

četvrtak, 20.01.2011.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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.
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.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Life is consciousness.

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Someone went upside my head again.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

The influence of literature on people's mind is great.

I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about 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.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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.
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.

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