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srijeda, 27.07.2011.

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

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.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

The day fixed for attempt was the 5th of November, the day on which the Parliament was to open.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
He who laughs, lasts!
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
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.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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."
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.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

It is not only children and members of family.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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.

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

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.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Bush's high popularity after the Persian Gulf War dropped rapidly, and he lost the 1992 presidential election to the Democrat, Arkansas's Governor Bill Clinton.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
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.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.

But the party supported the nation's war effort and after the war, led by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg , joined the Democratic administration in a bipartisan foreign policy.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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.

After the overtune the curtain went up.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

How can you tell whether you, or someone close to you, may have a drinking problem?

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Someone went upside my head again.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

People go to the cinema once or twice a week.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

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?

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

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. Happines

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
People fail forward to success.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
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 woman.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got 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.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.

Our lives teach us who we are.

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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
I stand in awe of my body.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

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.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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 physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.

My head rang like a gong.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
People fail forward to success.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

petak, 22.07.2011.

These forests are full of wonderful flowers and interesting animals.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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.
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.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

Many of the rivers are "biologically dead", i.e. unable to support fish and wildlife.

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.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
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 few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

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.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventua

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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."
A poem is no place for an idea.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
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.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

There are some traditions connected with it.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

However, the Republican tariff policy was the work of leaders of the new industrial capitalism, whose influence in party councils began to be strongly felt under Grant.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Walking is man's best medicine.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

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

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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 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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

The weather is not as good as in spring and in summer.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

There are two kinds of gold in Western Australia.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

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. Happines

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

The 44 countries with a high human suffering rate--all in Africa, Asia, and Latin America--also had an average annual population increase of 2.8%.

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.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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!
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.
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.'
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Swift meant this small country with it's shallow interest, corrupted laws and evil customs to symbolize the England of the 18'th centure, the court with it's atmosphere of hostility, hypocrizy and flattery where the author felt as lonely as his hero when

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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.
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.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
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.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

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 th

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.'
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

Brobdingnag is an expression of Swift's desire to find the ideal and escape from the disgusting world of the Liliputians.

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?
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Is there life before death?
The average person thinks he isn't.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
They weren't wearing insignia.

The dancers got many curtain calls and were presented with many flowers.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

If you take to reading, the world of other people's ideas and problems becomes familiar to you.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

The doctor came, removed his coat and put on his white gown.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
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.
Is there life before death?
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

The trees begin to blossom. Sometimes it drizzles, but there are no rough winds; the sun shines brightly.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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.

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.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
A joke's a very serious thing.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Many larger mammals such as bear, wolf have been hunted to extinction, others are now protected by law.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

For a main course you can order fish, meat or chicken with some rice or potatoes, also you can ask for pasta and salad.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
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!
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Her way to present the stories was quite definite from that of her colleagues.

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.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

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