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ponedjeljak, 29.11.2010.

He is clever, honest and kind to his people.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Memory feeds imagination.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

The left always having been linked with evil.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

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

Walking is man's best medicine.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

The ship anchors near the land of the giants to take in a supply of water.

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.
Art is science made clear.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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.

In one study of 832 workers at a large manufacturing plant, workers on evening shifts, during which supervision was reduced, were more likely than those on other shifts to report drinking at work.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

When the sun shines, the air of the Blue Mountains is a real, beautiful blue.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

subota, 27.11.2010.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.

There is wide variation in the existence of alcohol policies, in employees' awareness of them, and in their enforcement in workplaces across the country.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Is there life before death?
Love truth, and pardon error.

I saw many interesting places and learned a lot of important facts about other countries and people.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

? Genetic research: Scientists are now studying 3,000 individuals from several hundred families with a history of alcoholism in order to pinpoint the location of genes that influence vulnerability to alcoholism.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

It seldom snows heavily in winter, the frost is rare. January and February are usually the coldest months, July and August the warmest. Still the wind may bring winter cold in spring or summer days. Sometimes it brings the whirlwinds or hurricanes.

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.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Who were these clowns?

I didn't even breathe.
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.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

In 1980, the conservative Ronald Reagan, a former supporter of Barry Goldwater, regained the presidency for the Republicans and reversed long-standing political trends by instituting a supply-side economic program of budget and tax cuts.

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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 never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

A number of catholics chief of whom was Robert Catesby determined to kill the King and his ministers by blowing up the house of Parliament with gunpowder.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

The national museum, the old and new national galleries of art, Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln memorials are among the city sites.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.

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

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
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.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Facts are the enemy of truth.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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."
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

At first sight they have nothing in life; they don't have stable jobs or their own apartments, but they are really happy; they meet every day with a smile, they laugh and receive pleasure from life. Isn't that great?

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
To try to be better is to be better.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

I never know how much of what I say is true.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
A smiling face is half the meal.
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.

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.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

utorak, 09.11.2010.

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

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Love truth, and pardon error.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

The business center of New York is near Wall Street.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

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

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
The best way out is always through.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

The party's national organization was perfected at Pittsburgh in Feb., 1856, and its first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont , made a creditable showing against victorious James Buchanan.

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.
I am not young enough to know everything.
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.
Is there life before death?
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

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.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

These forests are full of wonderful flowers and interesting animals.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

The river brings greenness and life to the south-east corner. In the early of the Australian history, the Murrey River was South Australia?s main road.

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
I stand in awe of my body.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

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.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

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.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Some individuals who have stopped drinking after experiencing alcohol-related problems choose to attend AA meetings for information and support, even though they have not been diagnosed as alcoholic.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

It doesn't matter what kind of book it is.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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.
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.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

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