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subota, 27.11.2010.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Is there life before death?
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Now there are many books in the shops.

A poem is no place for an idea.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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?
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
I didn't even breathe.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

"We cannot continue to use our seas as a dustbin and expect our coastline to survive," says Greenpeace.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
'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'd learned my lesson.

When we take a book, we mustn't do dog's ears, we mustn't write anything on the pages, and we must return books to the library in time.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
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.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing 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.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The Republicans also increased their majorities in both houses of Congress, as retiring Senate Democrats from the South were replaced by Republicans.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to 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 animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
All movements go too far.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

And as you have a neighbour you can always turn to him if you need something, though from time to time your neighbour can disturb you when he repairs his part of the house or listens to music too loudly.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

I like the cinema tremendously.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Swift meant this small country with it's shallow interest, corrupted laws and evil customs to symbolize the England of the 18'th centure, the court with it's atmosphere of hostility, hypocrizy and flattery where the author felt as lonely as his hero when

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.

There is not much rain, and drought is a constant anxiety.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Someone went upside my head again.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

The Republicans also increased their majorities in both houses of Congress, as retiring Senate Democrats from the South were replaced by Republicans.

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.
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?
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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 problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

The Republicans favored a protective tariff and the Democrats a tariff for revenue only, but even this traditional distinction was not rigidly kept.

I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
A joke's a very serious thing.

But it is difficult to buy all books which we want to read.

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

And the last type of dwelling I want to mention is a detached house.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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?
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Appearances are really deceptive; it's like a wrap of a sweet.

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.
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.
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.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

If your health care professional concludes that you may be dependent on alcohol, he or she may recommend that you see a specalist in diagnosing and treating alcoholism.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
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.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.

In the Northern Territory you will find the red heart of Australia.

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.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

If you are going to live alone, you can prefer a studio to a large apartment.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Before real roads and railways came, the river carried people and goods from the east up into the country.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Proponents of population regulation point to the fact that we are not providing adequate basic necessities for one out of five people on Earth today who don't have the opportunity to be a net economic gain for their country.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Agatha Christie was sure the world's best selling crime writer.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Memory feeds imagination.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

I like to read books about animals, nature and children.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Happiness is something that lives inside each of us, but not all the people are able to feel it.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.

It is winter now.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

I like to read stories about heroes, great travelers, explorers, and courageous men.

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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do 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.

utorak, 16.11.2010.

They join and support various international organosation and green parties.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

No.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

You may think for example, that you would like a job which involves organizing people, but liking such a job is not a sufficient justification if experience you already may have suggests that this is not your strong point.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
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.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

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.

She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Our lives teach us who we are.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
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 never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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 have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

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

Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

There are, for example, the Blue Mountains.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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.

How can you tell whether you, or someone close to you, may have a drinking problem?

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

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

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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 trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only th

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

The 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.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

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

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Love truth, and pardon error.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
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.
Someone went upside my head again.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

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Her room is very cosy, though it isn't very large.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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?
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

The children will sing:" Remember, remember the 5th of November; Gun powder, treason and plot". And they will ask passers-by for "a penny for the Guy" But the children with "the Guy" are not likely to know who or what day they are celebrating.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent 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".
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.
History is more or less bunk.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

So,The main goals are protection of women?s rights and elimination of discrimination in society; widening women?s participation in policy decision-making processes on the local, regional and national levels; support for cooperation between women?s organiz

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

There are more than a dozen very good orchestras in Britain and some of them are world famous.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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