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ponedjeljak, 29.11.2010.

Today Australia is an independent federative state consisting of 6 states and 2 territories.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

An idea is salvation by imagination.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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 only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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 common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

You can eat a bowl of ice-cream, a pieces of apple pie, strawberries with cream or something like that for dessert.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
My head rang like a gong.
My friends are my estate.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Some 230 kinds of birds live in Britain, and another 200 are regular visitors, many are songbirds.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Never eat more than you can lift.

He or she is frequently in the grip of a powerful craving for alcohol, a need that can feel as strong as the need for food or water.

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.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
To try to be better is to be better.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Memory feeds imagination.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other 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.

I never know how much of what I say is true.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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?
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Memory feeds imagination.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

Do you want to be an organizer of other people's activities?

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
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.'
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
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?
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

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.

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.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
To try to be better is to be better.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

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I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

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.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

One of them is to give presents to each other.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Maybe they were terrorists!
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Later, already being a world-known writer, she tried to avoid publicity and stayed out of public eye.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Many other ecological problems may be caused by privatization of the coast.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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.
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.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Before long Gulliver undertakes another voyage.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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'.

Some project that if everyone existed at a minimum survival level, the earth could support 20 to 48 billion people.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Never eat more than you can lift.

Newly made whiskey is colorless, the rich brown of the matured liquor being acquired from the cask in which it is stored. Canadian whiskey has a characteristic lightness of body and must, according to law, be produced from cereal grain only.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

They believe that the land itself has life.

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.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

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.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

If I had a chance to go to some English - speaking country I would like to go to Australia.

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.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
I didn't even breathe.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

In the case of scholars, whose occupation is directly involved with that right, the concept of academic freedom generally includes the property right of tenure of office (see tenure , in education). Essential to the acceptance of the concept of academic f

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 daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Miss Marple was absolutely opposite to Poirot.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
'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.

četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

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.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
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.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

subota, 13.11.2010.

Having thought carefully about the sort of person you are, try to work out a realistic set pf occupational requirment.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.
Life is consciousness.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

A service is usually excellent and friendly waiters help you to relax and enjoy your meal fully.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

My home is not a place, it is people.

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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?
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

utorak, 09.11.2010.

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

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
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 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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

I love every corner and every thing in my flat.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

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

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
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.

I usually take books from school library.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
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.

The height of radical power was reached in 1868 with the impeachment of Johnson, which was defeated by only a one-vote margin.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

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.

I didn't even breathe.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
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Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

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.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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.
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.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Theatrical perfomances are given by theatre companies.

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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

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.

Who were these clowns?
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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'.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

I like to read almost all books.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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.
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.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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?
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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?
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

The scientists are shut in their chambers isolated from all the world.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
No.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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