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nedjelja, 06.02.2011.

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

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
All things are difficult before they are easy.

Stimson and Frank Knox , were virtually read out of the party for accepting posts in Roosevelt's cabinet.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
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.
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."
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Because of this division, the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, was elected President and, narrowly reelected in 1916 over Charles Evans Hughes , he served through World War I.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
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.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

She wanted to give me some aspirin tablets too, but there weren't any in our house.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
People fail forward to success.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Women's social status is a serious problem.

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

petak, 04.02.2011.

? 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.

People fail forward to success.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

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.
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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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.
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.

A book is one of the greatest wonders of the world.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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 may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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?
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

I am not young enough to know everything.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
People fail forward to success.
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.
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.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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.
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.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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.

It is the street there most famous theaters are situated.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
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."
Things are only impossible until they're not.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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 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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
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.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

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