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četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

At that time James the First was on the throne. He was hated with many people especialy the Roman catholics against whom many sever laws had been passed.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
My home is not a place, it is people.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

In this fast-moving world it is necessary to watch what we eat ? it should be healthy food, not junk one, which has become very popular.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

That's why I think over the possibility to live in a cottage when I retire.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

God creates men, but they choose each other.
I am not young enough to know everything.
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.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

They were successful in the elections of 1858 and passed over their better-known leaders to nominate Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

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

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a wom

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

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

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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.
Things are only impossible until they're not.

Try to answer these questions as fully and honestly as you can.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
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."
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Do you want to be an organizer of other people's activities?

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Dairy products provide us with calcium, meat provide our bodies with protein, iron, zinc.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

We came to the theatre long before the perfomance began.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
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.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

utorak, 09.11.2010.

My mother says that books help us in self-education.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

Women comprise 54 percent of contemporary Russian society. However, the number of women taking part in the country's political, economic and civic life shows that women are restricted in the spheres of politics and government.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Such people see only dark sides in everything and it prevents them from being happy. But look at other people!

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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

By straddling the issue of the League of Nations and calling for a return to "normalcy," the party easily elected Warren G. Harding in 1920.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
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.

Choosing a career is like any other activity; it is best to work to a plan.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Well done is better than well said.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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.

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.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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.
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.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

The domestic program of the Eisenhower adminstration was moderately conservative, and in foreign policy the internationalist approach of the previous Democratic administration was continued. Despite the President's overwhelming personal popularity and hi

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

He also largely continued Reagan's policy toward the Soviet Union.

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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.

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