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ponedjeljak, 29.11.2010.

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

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.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Who were these clowns?

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

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.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

It was ages ago, but this stands out in my memory quiet vividly.

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

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

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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!

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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?
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

Currently, nearly 30 million Russians - abuse alcohol or are alcoholic.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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.

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

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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

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.
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 best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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 used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
People fail forward to success.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.

I am happy if it is a book. If I have free time I like to spend it with my favourite books.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
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.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
He who laughs, lasts!
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
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.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

At first her stories appealed to the readers' detective inside, so you can't find much blood and violence in her stories.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

I pay attention to the cover of the book, its illustrations, the name of the author, the title of the book and the contents.

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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 love every corner and every thing in my flat.

My head rang like a gong.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
The average person thinks he isn't.
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.

In spring all birds come back from the South and they sing sweetly on the branches of the trees.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

Proponents of population regulation believe this is caused by a combination of population growth and unwillingness of the wealthy to share the world's wealth and resources more fairly.

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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.

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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'd learned my lesson.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

A poem is no place for an idea.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Vigorous writing is concise.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

I personally appreciate such people and I believe that happiness is to live your life, to enjoy every day of your life, to be glad to every minute and to receive with thanks everything that life offers you.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
All the world's a cage.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

You can learn many things from books.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
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.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

My home is not a place, it is people.

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.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
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.
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.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

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

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

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

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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
I am not young enough to know everything.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

However, especially if it is cold and wet outside, many people like to stay at home to watch TV.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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