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petak, 04.02.2011.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Life is consciousness.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

In 1726 Swift's masterpiece "Gulliver's Travels" appeared.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
People fail forward to success.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
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.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.

Moreover, taking steps to identify a possible drinking problem has an enormous payoff--a chance for a healthier, more rewarding life.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
They weren't wearing insignia.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
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.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People fail forward to success.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.
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."
A smiling face is half the meal.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.
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.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

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.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

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.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

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.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

You will feel full in both cases, but a fruit or a vegetable is healthier.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
No.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

In the British homes there has been no central heating up till recently.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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.

The frustrated Republicans were never able to break the remarkable hold of Roosevelt and the New Deal on the electorate and regularly went down to defeat every four years, with Alfred M. Landon (1936), Wendell Willkie (1940), and Thomas E. Dewey (1944).

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

There are, for example, the Blue Mountains.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Although it contains 13 volumes, much of the work may not be Euclid's.

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.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Things are only impossible until they're not.

Supervision.

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.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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.
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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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?
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
People fail forward to success.
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.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

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.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

The Scotch Highland whisky (made in pot stills) and that of the Lowlands (patent stills) differ in the percentage of barley used, quality of the water

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Is there life before death?
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
'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.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
People fail forward to success.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
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.

It doesn?t matter what kind ? with raspberry favor, with marmalade, chocolate chips or pieces of fruit.

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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

The room is always filled with the sounds of music.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Scotch, but no peat is used in the curing, and instead of the dry, somewhat smoky flavor of Scotch, it has a full, sweet taste.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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.

I have never seen anything more wonderful.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

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