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nedjelja, 27.06.2010.

The 1998 mid-term elections saw the Republican margin in the House reduced, despite expectations that they would benefit from the effects of the Lewinsky scandal; the results led to Gingrich's resignation from office.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

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.

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 make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
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.
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.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

To minorities, population regulation is sometimes seen as a form of genocide to keep their numbers and power from rising.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

četvrtak, 24.06.2010.

The surge in population is both a cause of the changed relationship and one of the clearest illustrations of how startling the change has been, especially when viewed in a historical context. From the emergence of modern humans 200,000 years ago until Ju

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Art is science made clear.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

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.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

Books... I think that we can't live without them.

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

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 eventua

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Walking is man's best medicine.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Maybe they were terrorists!

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.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Even the best of friends need time apart.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Regular reading enriches your knowledge of the world and helps to form your entire personality.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

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.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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.

People fail forward to success.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

That's why we get books in libraries.

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.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
A poem is no place for an idea.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
So little time and so little to do.

Even the best of friends need time apart.

Each body has its art...
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
He who laughs, lasts!
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

srijeda, 23.06.2010.

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Therefore it is natural for the people to use the comparison "as changeable as the weather" of a person who often changes his mood or opinion about something.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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.

In Optics, Euclid attempts to prove the common belief of the time that sight was created by rays coming from the eye, rather than light entering the eye.

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Alcoholism has little to do with what kind of alcohol one drinks, how long one has been drinking, or even exactly how much alcohol one consumes.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

It will help you to know more about the history and life of different nations and countries.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

I love every corner and every thing in my flat.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

I can't say that I can stand colds.

See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

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.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

ponedjeljak, 21.06.2010.

I believe that everyone at least once in his/her life unwrapped a sweet in a bright paper but instead of a chocolate sweet found there just caramel.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Our lives teach us who we are.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

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.
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.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

For example, do you want to live in the country or in the town?

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Some people make headlines while others make history.

Even the best of friends need time apart.

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.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Walking is man's best medicine.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Every country and every nation has it's own traditions and customs.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

subota, 19.06.2010.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

From a legal point of view, a man and a woman in Russia are equal.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

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!'

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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 first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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?
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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.

Amounts large and famous American cities are Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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?
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

My mother told me to stay in bed, then she called for a doctor.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

četvrtak, 10.06.2010.

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

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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?
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.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
People fail forward to success.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.