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petak, 08.04.2011.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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 we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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.

Dutch settlers founded the city in 17 century.

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.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
I stand in awe of my body.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.

You also will be given a physical examination.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

In ancient times books were written by hand.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
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?
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Is there life before death?
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.

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.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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.'
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

What is alcoholism, exactly?

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
The best way out is always through.
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.
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.'
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 feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

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

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

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

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.
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.'
Well done is better than well said.

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

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.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Historically, academic freedom developed during the Enlightenment.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

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.

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

That means that even if an alcoholic has been sober for a long while and has regained health, he or she remains susceptible to relapse and must continue to avoid all alcoholic beverages.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
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.

He also largely continued Reagan's policy toward the Soviet Union.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

In the United States the early colleges were also religiously controlled, and there are still some denominational schools that define areas of inquiry.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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 wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Tropical fruit and flowers grow on the beautiful islands.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
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.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

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