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petak, 18.03.2011.
Some individuals who have stopped drinking after experiencing alcohol-related problems choose to attend AA meetings for information and support, even though they have not been diagnosed as alcoholic.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
I'm sure that I'm a happy person: I have many friends, loving parents, goals in my life, etc.
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?
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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Washington is a large scientific and cultural center.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
It was one of my brightest memories.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
The influence of literature on people's mind is great.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
srijeda, 16.03.2011.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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.
Also in summer many people leave their cities and spend much time in the country or at the seaside.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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.
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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
People come back from the countryside and do not walk outside enough.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Someone went upside my head again.
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.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
What's another word for Thesaurus?
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
There are five universities in the city.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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?
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
To try to be better is to be better.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Britain was originally a land of vast forests.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Hot winds blow from the north: cold winds blow from the south.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
The surge in population is both a cause of the changed relationship and one of the clearest illustrations of how startling the change has been, especially when viewed in a historical context. From the emergence of modern humans 200,000 years ago until Ju
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
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.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Life is consciousness.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
'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.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
For a main course you can order fish, meat or chicken with some rice or potatoes, also you can ask for pasta and salad.
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 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.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
People are beginning to realise that environmental problems are not somebody else's.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
If governments wake up to what is happening- perhaps we'll be able to avoid the disaster that threatens the natural world and all of us with it.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I stand in awe of my body.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
In spite of these arguments we musn't forget about everybody's vacation.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.'
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
For example, Brazilians never eat with their hands ? they always use a knife and a fork, even when they eat hotdogs.
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
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.
