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subota, 27.11.2010.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.'

The conservatives, skillfully guided by national chairman Marcus A. Hanna , won with William McKinley in 1896 and 1900, and under such leaders as Nelson W. Aldrich , Thomas B. Reed , Joseph G. Cannon , Thomas C. Platt , and Matthew S. Quay , the party pro

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

I had a running nose and a sore throat.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Each body has its art...
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Despite not winning the popular vote.

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 happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
My head rang like a gong.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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!
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Many families celebrate cristmas day in the open air near the cristmas tree in order to catch the spirit of cristmas.

I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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 meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

A 15-session worksite coping-skills intervention designed to reduce work- and family-related risk, to enhance protective factors, and to reduce negative health outcomes was conducted among 136 female secretaries.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
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.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
God creates men, but they choose each other.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
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.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Maybe they were terrorists!
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.

To proponents of population regulation, it is unethical for us not to encourage a sharp drop in birth rates and unsustainable forms of resource use to prevent a sharp rise in death rates and human misery and a decrease in Earth's biodiversity in the futu

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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 never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

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.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

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

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.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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 happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Also it is pleasant to walk when it is not very cold and it snows.

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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Her room is very cosy, though it isn't very large.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
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 must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
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.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

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.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.'
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Every singly person should eat proper kinds of food ? dairy products, meats, fruit and vegetables, fats and sugars, cereals and grains.

Things are only impossible until they're not.
Well done is better than well said.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
So little time and so little to do.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

That's why now I never make any conclusions about a person when I meet him or her for the first time.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.'

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

subota, 20.11.2010.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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 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.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

My home is not a place, it is people.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

It is a member of the Commonwealth headed by the British Queen. The capital is Canberra.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Who were these clowns?
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

utorak, 16.11.2010.

They see people overpopulation in MDCs (more developed countries) as threats to Earth's life support systems for us and other species.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

The business center of New York is near Wall Street.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The English also say that they have three variants of weather: when it rains in the morning, when it rains in the afternoon or when in rains all day long. Sometimes it rains so heavily that they say "It's raining cats and dogs".

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Worries go down better with soup than without.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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.'
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
My head rang like a gong.

Depression and World War II

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

It was hear that the Dutch built the first building of the town.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

According to United Nations Gender Organization data, 67 percent of those unemployed in Russia are women.

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Whiskey was made in England in the 11th cent., chiefly in monasteries, but in the 16th cent. distilling was carried on commercially.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

The weather is getting warmer and warmer, everything changes and reborn.

Someone went upside my head again.
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.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

Theatrical perfomances are given by theatre companies.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
He who laughs, lasts!
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Housework, chores and raising children are generally considered to belong to a woman's domain.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Those, who prefer to stay at home may spend their free time, watching TV, listening to the radio.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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 most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

The engine died and then the doors swung open.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.
Love truth, and pardon error.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

I believe that my bedroom also tells a lot about me to people who visit it.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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."
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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.
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.

Moderate drinkers also reduced their consumption, and participants reported changes in their attitudes toward drinking and drinking and driving, knowledge about problem drinking, and recognition of signs of a drinking problem.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

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