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ponedjeljak, 29.11.2010.

Hot winds blow from the north: cold winds blow from the south.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

As for me, I have made up my mind to be an engineer.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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.

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.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

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.

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?
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Women's social status is a serious problem.

Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
It's never just a game when you're winning.

The weather is getting warmer and warmer, everything changes and reborn.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Art is science made clear.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

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