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ponedjeljak, 29.11.2010.

In 1964 the conservative wing of the party engineered the nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater , who was, however, defeated in a landslide by Lyndon B. Johnson.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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.
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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.

The fireplaces are often used. but the coal is not used as it's very expensive.

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.
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.
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!
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Euclid then replied, "There is no royal road to geometry," and sent one of the most powerful kings of his time off to study.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
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.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

All the members of our family buy books and read them.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
My head rang like a gong.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

subota, 27.11.2010.

Books must be our friends during all our 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.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

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

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

In these postwar elections, the party, always supported by the Grand Army of the Republic , denounced all Democrats as former Copperheads and claimed to have alone saved the Union.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

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.

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 am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Memory feeds imagination.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

Everyone can find something he or she likes. For instance, some people prefer to live somewhere in the country in a small, but cosy cottage or a large farmhouse.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

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.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

subota, 13.11.2010.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
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.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

The Civil War and Reconstruction Years

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
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.
So little time and so little to do.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

The cakes were round like the full moon and lit with tapers.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
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.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Someone went upside my head again.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Walking is man's best medicine.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

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.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

The Old Royal Albert Hall and the New Royal Festival Hall, which is one of the most modern concert halls in the world.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.'
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The driest period is from March to June and the wettest months are from October to January.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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.

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.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
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.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Love truth, and pardon error.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

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