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utorak, 31.08.2010.

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
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.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
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?
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

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.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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?
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.'
All movements go too far.

Republicans unseated long-time Democratic incumbents, winning control of both houses of Congress (for the first time since the 1950s) and claiming several governorships.

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!'
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

McKinley through Coolidge

I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
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.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

The national academy of sciences and the library of congress are in Washington too.

To try to be better is to be better.
Is there life before death?
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.
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.
Who were these clowns?
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Bush's high popularity after the Persian Gulf War dropped rapidly, and he lost the 1992 presidential election to the Democrat, Arkansas's Governor Bill Clinton.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

subota, 28.08.2010.

He also advocated increased military spending and presided over the largest military buildup during peacetime in American history.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Later I could read myself.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
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.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

Read more and you'll never be bored!

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

That's why we get books in libraries.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

It's the place where I wake up every morning to the refreshing smell of coffee from the kitchen and where every day of my life starts, that's why it is so important for me.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
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.
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.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

I think we can't live without books.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
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.
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.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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."
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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