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subota, 27.11.2010.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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 like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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.
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.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

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

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

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.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
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?

Benjamin Harrison defeated Cleveland in 1888 but lost to him in 1892.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

subota, 13.11.2010.

Newt Gingrich , who spearheaded the Republicans' congressional election campaign with his conservative "Contract with America" program, became speaker of the House.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

They have done this more or less every 5th of November since 1605.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

In these postwar elections, the party, always supported by the Grand Army of the Republic , denounced all Democrats as former Copperheads and claimed to have alone saved the Union.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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 keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

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

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

In Russia the weather is very cold in winter in winter and very warm in summer, people usually wear too much clothes in winter ? warm sweaters, jeans, tights, winter boots and fur-coats, mittens, scarves, hats and other warm things.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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 think in generalities, but we live in detail.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

London is also the main center of opera and ballet.

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.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

They see people overpopulation in MDCs (more developed countries) as threats to Earth's life support systems for us and other species.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
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.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.

utorak, 09.11.2010.

There are four seasons in a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter. December, January and February are winter months.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

When you are taken away by a thrilling plot and by author's vivid imagination or by his humorous remarks or by the way he portrays people, you can't help reading the book from cover to cover, when the life of a literary character is similar to yours, you

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on 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.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Who were these clowns?
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
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'.

Excess luggage must be paid for except for some articles that can be carried free of charge.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

I believe that my bedroom also tells a lot about me to people who visit it.

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 don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
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?

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
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.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I stand in awe of my body.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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.
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.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.

I think that my facilities combined with the knowledge would be quiet enough to succeed in my work.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

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.
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.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

It?s not surprising that more holiday-makers come to Queensland every year.

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.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

It is the longest and the widest street in New York.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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?
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

The sky is always dull and overcast and it often rains, so there are pools on roads and cars splash the water on the passers-by.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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.

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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

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 wha

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
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.

I try to enjoy every day of my life and be happy all the time: to smile when I wake up because of the bright sun shining directly into my window, to feel happiness somewhere deep inside playing snowballs or swimming in the sea, to feel pleasure when I see

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

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

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

The hangover effect was demonstrated among pilots whose performance was tested in flight simulators.

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Now I like to read books on science.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

The name reappeared in the 1850s, when the present-day Republican party was founded.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
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.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

I like to watch films very much. I prefer thrillers, comedies and horror movies, but I do not like tragedies and melodramas very much, and I hate soap operas, although they are becoming very popular in our country.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

In the period that followed, the two parties differed little in their programs.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

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.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Her way to present the stories was quite definite from that of her colleagues.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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?
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

This custom was next recorded in the middle ages when German peasants lit tapers on birthday cakes, the number lit indicating the person's age, plus an extra one to represent the light of life. From earliest days burning tapers had been endoued with mysti

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Walking is man's best medicine.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

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.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
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.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

Choosing a comfortable hotel to stay at is, therefore, a matter of some importance.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
History is more or less bunk.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

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

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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!
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

There are also those who like semi-detached houses or, as the Americans call them, duplexes.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

In fact, King Ptolemy once asked Euclid if there was an easier way to study math than learning all the theorems.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.

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

Is there life before death?
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
I didn't even breathe.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million y

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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.
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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Is there life before death?
People fail forward to success.
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
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.

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