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petak, 18.03.2011.

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

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.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.
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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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 am fond of good books and good music, and when I have some time to spare, I like to go to the theatre or a concert.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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.
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.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.

Each volume begins with pages of definitions and postulates, followed by his theorems.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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 think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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 art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

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

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

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

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Is there life before death?

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
There 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.'
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.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

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

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

srijeda, 16.03.2011.

It is a good idea, that those who are late are not allowed to enter the hall until the news-reel is over.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

But it has a great deal to do with a person's uncontrollable need for alcohol.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

Naltrexone is the first medication approved in 45 years to help alcoholics stay sober after they detoxify from alcohol.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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.
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.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Supervision.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

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.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
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.
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.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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.
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.

I hate being disturbed when a film is on. If I like a movie very much I go to see it a second time and besides I see many of the movies televised.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Nixon's successor, Gerald R. Ford , attempted to disassociate the party from the scandals, but Watergate appeared to be a major factor in the substantial Republican losses in the 1974 elections and in the subsequent defeat of Ford by the Democrat Jimmy C

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.

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

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

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.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

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 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.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

You always pass failure on the way to success.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
A joke's a very serious thing.

Bush's high popularity after the Persian Gulf War dropped rapidly, and he lost the 1992 presidential election to the Democrat, Arkansas's Governor Bill Clinton.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

The Civil War and Reconstruction Years

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

Vigorous writing is concise.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Art is science made clear.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

srijeda, 09.03.2011.

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.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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!'
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
All movements go too far.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.

He was widely lauded for his role in orchestrating the coalition of forces against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
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.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

"Gulliver's travels was one of the greatest works of the period of the Enlightment in world literature.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Homes reflect the way of life and habits of their owners.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Well done is better than well said.

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.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

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

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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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 years of accumulated finesse.
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.

The climate is hot and Australian boast that they can sleep out -of- doors all the year round.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

If governments wake up to what is happening- perhaps we'll be able to avoid the disaster that threatens the natural world and all of us with it.

Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
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.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

My best friend's name is Nina, we are friends for many ages; but I can never forget our first meeting. It was in summer when our families decided to rest in the south together.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Gardens and parks are full of colorful flowers; there are a lot of berries in summer, so some people like to go to a forest to pick them up.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

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.
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.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Where facts are few, experts are many.

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

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
No.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

Everyone can find something he or she likes. For instance, some people prefer to live somewhere in the country in a small, but cosy cottage or a large farmhouse.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

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.

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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
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.
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.

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