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četvrtak, 30.09.2010.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
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.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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.
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.'
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

I often read the paper "Film Week" to know which films have been released and which ones are being shot.

I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Supervision.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I am not young enough to know everything.

The ground is covered with snow, so a lot of people go skating and skiing.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

utorak, 28.09.2010.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

The third voyage is to Laputa, a flying island Laputa.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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 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.
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.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.

South Australia is the driest of all the states, but it does have Murrey River.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

It's very important to know traditions and customs of different people.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

I usually go to the cinema for the morning or day shows.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
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 are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.'

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.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

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.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

He prescribed cups and mustard plasters.

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.
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?
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

In the United States this is known as moonshining.

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Love truth, and pardon error.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

nedjelja, 26.09.2010.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

In the 1994 congressional and state elections, however, the Republican party scored major victories and increased its hold in the South.

Is there life before death?
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

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.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

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 am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
They can conquer who believe they can.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

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

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

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.

My head rang like a gong.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
All things are difficult before they are easy.

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.

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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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.'
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.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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.
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.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

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 must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
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.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.

Preventing Alcohol Problems in the Workplace

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
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.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Much of the information we do have is from authors like Proclus who lived centuries later, writing about his books, not his life.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

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.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

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.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
People fail forward to success.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

The White House is one of the oldest buildings in the city. It is the president?s residents.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

The human race ocupies a position of servility there and a noble race of horces rules the country by reason and justice.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
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.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I love it because the nature wakes up ? trees are in blossom, the green grass grows up, the sun shines, birds sing?beautiful!

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.

McKinley through Coolidge

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
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.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
My head rang like a gong.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

As for me, I am a great cinema-goer.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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'.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

But be, as you have been, my happiness...

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
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.

The consequences of alcohol misuse are serious--in many cases, life-threatening.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

subota, 25.09.2010.

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.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
History is more or less bunk.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

In 1972, President Nixon was triumphantly reelected, defeating George McGovern on a record of favoring a strong defense with a limited detente with the Soviet Union and China, and a conservative domestic program featuring a decentralization of political

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

British people say: "Other countries have a climate, in England we have weather."

Never eat more than you can lift.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Well done is better than well said.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Because of this division, the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, was elected President and, narrowly reelected in 1916 over Charles Evans Hughes , he served through World War I.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

And non-governmental charity organizations become a single source for support of such projects.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
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!
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
A smiling face is half the meal.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

petak, 24.09.2010.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

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.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
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.

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.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

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?
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 don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Euclid responded by giving the small child a coin, saying that "he must make gain out of what he learns."

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.

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.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

It can also cause liver cirrhosis, immune system problems, brain damage, and harm to the fetus during pregnancy. In addition, drinking increases the risk of death from automobile crashes, recreational accidents, and on-the-job accidents and also increases

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

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

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.

četvrtak, 23.09.2010.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

But days become shorter and nights longer and darker.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
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.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.