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Dutch settlers founded the city in 17 century.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
So little time and so little to do.
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.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

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 claustrophob

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.

Former Senate majority leader Bob Dole won the Republican nomination for the presidency, but he and his running mate, Jack Kemp , were never able to reduce significantly President Clinton's substantial lead. In the House and Senate, Republicans retained t

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Walking is man's best medicine.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Each volume begins with pages of definitions and postulates, followed by his theorems.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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 is more or less bunk.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

A less clearly developed corollary of academic freedom is the obligation of all those who enjoy it to pursue the line of open and thorough inquiry regardless of personal considerations.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
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.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

There are a lot of films which are worth seeing, but this one is the best one to my mind.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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?
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
All movements go too far.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Diseases brought by settlers caused many deaths among the aborigines and now there are only about 60 000 of them.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

"My home is my fortress", it is my territory, my place where I feel good and comfortable. And nobody can disturb me here.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.

In addition, alcohol abuse is less likely than alcoholism to include tolerance (the need for increasing amounts of alcohol to get "high").

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

Because the involvement of family members is important to the recovery process, many programs also offer brief marital counseling and family therapy as part of the treatment process.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
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.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The river brings greenness and life to the south-east corner. In the early of the Australian history, the Murrey River was South Australiaýs main road.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

My mother says that books help us in self-education.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Each body has its art...
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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.
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.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

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.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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 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."

Watch the electric sign flashes when you are on board, when the "Fasten Seat Belts" sign goes on do it promptly and also obey the "No Smoking" signal.

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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Can Alcoholism Be Cured?

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
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.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

When the sun shines, the air of the Blue Mountains is a real, beautiful blue.

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.
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.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

There are about 200 professional theatres in Britain.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Amounts large and famous American cities are Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Britain has no good coal now and imports it itself.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

The party, however, won the Congressional elections of 1918, and Republican opposition was a large factor in defeating Wilson's peace program.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
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.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

He is clever, honest and kind to his people.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
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.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

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

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Never eat more than you can lift.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

The English also say that they have three variants of weather: when it rains in the morning, when it rains in the afternoon or when in rains all day long. Sometimes it rains so heavily that they say "It's raining cats and dogs".

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
People fail forward to success.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

I think we can't live without books.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Here there are a lot of things that make this room look nice; she has a lot of toys which sit on her bed, on the shelves and on the windowsill. She collects statues of cats that she brings from different countries, it characterizes her as a broad-minded p

See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Relapses are very common and do not mean that a person has failed or cannot eventually recover from alcoholism.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
People fail forward to success.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Few female decision-makers can be found in positions of social importance.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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?
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.

Although a separate ticket headed by the radical Fremont withdrew before the election in 1864, the cleavage within the party between radicals and moderates widened as the war progressed. Radicals such as Benjamin F. Wade , Henry W. Davis , Thaddeus Steven

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Maybe they were terrorists!

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.
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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Even after the first few minutes in our flat you can understand all hospitality and friendliness of this place and the family which lives there.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done 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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
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?
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Former Senate majority leader Bob Dole won the Republican nomination for the presidency, but he and his running mate, Jack Kemp , were never able to reduce significantly President Clinton's substantial lead. In the House and Senate, Republicans retained t

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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
To try to be better is to be better.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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 write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

'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.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
People fail forward to success.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Australia is the world's largest island and the smallest continent.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

But days become shorter and nights longer and darker.

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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

Swift's imagination the bitterness of his satire reach their climax in the third part where he shows the academy of sciences in Laputa (the author touches upon all the existing sciences).

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

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.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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?
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

The effects of alcohol abuse can be extremely serious--even fatal--both to you and to others.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Alcohol abuse differs from alcoholism in that it does not include an extremely strong craving for alcohol, loss of control, or physical dependence.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

More than 3.500 million tons of industrial waste is pumped into the North Sea every year.

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.
Never eat more than you can lift.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Regular reading enriches your knowledge of the world and helps to form your entire personality.

A smiling face is half the meal.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

Rainfall is more or less even throughout the year.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

We are what we repeatedly do.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
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.

Also he gave me some sulfa pills, a slip for X-Ray and blood examination.

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. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
I didn't even breathe.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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'.
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?

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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?
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.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

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

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

The election of 1876 indicated that radical Republicanism had lost much of its popular support.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
To try to be better is to be better.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.

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

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

He is clever, honest and kind to his people.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

There is wide variation in the existence of alcohol policies, in employees' awareness of them, and in their enforcement in workplaces across the country.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

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

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

But anyways whatever you like you should remember words of wisdom which say that we eat to live, but not live to eat.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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?
Walking is man's best medicine.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

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.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

But it has a great deal to do with a person's uncontrollable need for alcohol.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
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.

Many developing countries, such as India, Egypt, Nigeria, Lybia, etc have excellent hotels.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

For a main course you can order fish, meat or chicken with some rice or potatoes, also you can ask for pasta and salad.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

Moderate drinkers also reduced their consumption, and participants reported changes in their attitudes toward drinking and drinking and driving, knowledge about problem drinking, and recognition of signs of a drinking problem.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Well done is better than well said.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
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.

The national museum, the old and new national galleries of art, Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln memorials are among the city sites.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Love truth, and pardon error.
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.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Bush was generally recognized as strong on foreign policy.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
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.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

People in the office help guests to book train or steamer tickets and rent a car.

Maybe they were terrorists!
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 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.
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.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

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

It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.
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.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Never eat more than you can lift.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

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.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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.
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.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Analysis of existing legislation of Russia confirms its prohibition on gender discrimination.

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 going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Letýs reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, letýs keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

In bad times, and in the driest parts, many animals may die for want of water.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
A poem is no place for an idea.

Swift's imagination the bitterness of his satire reach their climax in the third part where he shows the academy of sciences in Laputa (the author touches upon all the existing sciences).

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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

A joke's a very serious thing.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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.
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.

In 1960, an incumbent Vice President, Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president for the first time since 1836.

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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
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'.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

The illicit manufacture of whiskey to avoid payment of excise taxes has been common.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Art is science made clear.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.

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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
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.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.