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subota, 28.08.2010.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
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.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Some people make headlines while others make history.

It is usually warm, so people go outside more often and enjoy spring blue sky.

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.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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.
Who were these clowns?
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.

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.

People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

In the 1994 congressional and state elections, however, the Republican party scored major victories and increased its hold in the South.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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.
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 isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
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.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

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.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Art is science made clear.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

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.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.
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.

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