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petak, 08.04.2011.

In particular, you can answer to important questions.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Each volume begins with pages of definitions and postulates, followed by his theorems.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
All movements go too far.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

The White House is one of the oldest buildings in the city. It is the president?s residents.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.
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.

Extensive forests remain in eastern and northern Scotland and in south-eastern and western England.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

Even after the first few minutes in our flat you can understand all hospitality and friendliness of this place and the family which lives there.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
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.

Also in summer many people leave their cities and spend much time in the country or at the seaside.

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.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

Things are only impossible until they're not.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
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.
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.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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 help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

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

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.

Hot winds blow from the north: cold winds blow from the south.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

I applauded so much, that my hands ached.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
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.
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.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

It is not a secret that our meals influence much on our mood.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

He hates wars and wants to make his people happy.

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.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

It was ages ago, but this stands out in my memory quiet vividly.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

The center of the city is on Capital Hill. This building houses both the senate and a House of Representatives.

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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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.

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.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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.
No.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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.
History is more or less bunk.

It was in the Prussia of Frederick the Great that the new freedom first flourished within the university itself. In England, it was laymen like Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Huxley who demonstrated the value of

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

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

The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

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

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
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.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

Each passenger of more than 2 years of age has a free luggage allowance.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
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.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

"Gulliver's travels was one of the greatest works of the period of the Enlightment in world literature.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
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.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

People go to the cinema once or twice a week.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

? Recurring alcohol-related legal problems, such as being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or for physically hurting someone while drunk;

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

But at the same time if you want to ask your neighbours for something or just to have a talk you can visit them.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Theatrical perfomances are given by theatre companies.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

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