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srijeda, 27.07.2011.

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.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
To try to be better is to be better.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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 human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
I didn't even breathe.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
I 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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
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.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
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.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

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

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
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.'
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.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
He who laughs, lasts!

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I consider that it's the cheapest type of dwelling in a town.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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 people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

The Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden, received a popular plurality of over 250,000 votes, but the disputed electoral votes of Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana, the only Southern states still under Republican control, were awarded to Rutherfor

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

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.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
They weren't wearing insignia.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

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.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

Another famous street is Broadway.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
To try to be better is to be better.

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.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
He who laughs, lasts!
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.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Maybe they were terrorists!
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

ý Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover (Eye opener)?

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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.
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.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Cristmas day is one of their favorite holidays.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Treatment may include detoxification (the process of safely getting alcohol out of one's system); taking doctor-prescribed medications, such as disulfiram or naltrexone, to help prevent a return to drinking once drinking has stopped; and individual and/o

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

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.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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 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.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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.

The availability and accessibility of alcohol may influence employee drinking.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
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.
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.

petak, 22.07.2011.

In 1968 the party rebounded and won a narrow victory with party stalwart Richard Nixon over Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, who was handicapped by disaffection over the Vietnam War.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

In this work Swift intended to satirise the evils of the existing society in the form of fictions travels.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Not far from the table there is a bed and next to it stands a bed-side table with the telephone.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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

Things are only impossible until they're not.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
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.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

The scientific method of analyzing data and establishing hypotheses, a vital concomitant of academic freedom, was initiated during the Enlightenment , mainly by scholars outside university life such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Voltaire.

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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

It can also cause liver cirrhosis, immune system problems, brain damage, and harm to the fetus during pregnancy. In addition, drinking increases the risk of death from automobile crashes, recreational accidents, and on-the-job accidents and also increases

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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.

I followed all the doctor's instructions and very soon I felt much better.

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.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.

You will see too small groups of children pulling round in a home made cart, a figure that looks something like a man but consists of an old suit of clothes, stuffed with straw.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Appearances are really deceptive; it's like a wrap of a sweet.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

The Elements was used as the primary geometry resource for over 2000 years, and his lessons could still be used today.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
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.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
People fail forward to success.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

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.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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.
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.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
My home is not a place, it is people.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

My first impressions about her were far from my opinion about her now. At first she seemed to me so correct, obedient and shy that I didn't like her at all, but when we began to communicate closer I understood I was mistaken. I think it makes sense to say

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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.
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.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Each body has its art...
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
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.

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.

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.
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.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.'
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

You may think for example, that you would like a job which involves organizing people, but liking such a job is not a sufficient justification if experience you already may have suggests that this is not your strong point.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
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.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

His work in Data is probably the most famous of his smaller works, and focuses on finding certain measurements and quantities when others are given.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
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.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
They weren't wearing insignia.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
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.

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

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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?
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.
It's never just a game when you're winning.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.

I like the cinema tremendously.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Such questions as women and their place in the society, their political and social activity as well as enlightening of those problems in mass media; questions of creation of informational data-base as well as maternity and childhood cannot be effectively

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
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'.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

When used in combination with counseling, this drug lessens the craving for alcohol in many people and helps prevent a return to heavy drinking.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

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.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
A smiling face is half the meal.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

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.

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.

Proponents of population regulation point to the fact that we are not providing adequate basic necessities for one out of five people on Earth today who don't have the opportunity to be a net economic gain for their country.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
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.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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'.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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.
Vigorous writing is concise.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

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.
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.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Art is science made clear.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
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.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

When we came into the hall the orchestra were tuning in their instruments.

Someone went upside my head again.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

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

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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 greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

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.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.

The illicit manufacture of whiskey to avoid payment of excise taxes has been common.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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.

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're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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.

This involves taking a realistic view of your strengths and weaknesses.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
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.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

A smiling face is half the meal.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
My home is not a place, it is people.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.