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subota, 26.06.2010.

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.

It's never just a game when you're winning.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
God creates men, but they choose each other.

She wasn't a professional and had never been one.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

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.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

In 1972, President Nixon was triumphantly reelected, defeating George McGovern on a record of favoring a strong defense with a limited detente with the Soviet Union and China, and a conservative domestic program featuring a decentralization of political

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Memory feeds imagination.
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?
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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 realizin

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

petak, 25.06.2010.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Never eat more than you can lift.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

My favourite film is ... with ... starring. It is really wonderful from the beginning to the end.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

These books excite my imagination. I think I devote much time to reading.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
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.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.

Eating habits are different in different countries.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Art is science made clear.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

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.'

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

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.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

četvrtak, 24.06.2010.

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.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

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.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

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

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.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

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

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.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

? Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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.'
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

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 a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
So little time and so little to do.

srijeda, 23.06.2010.

The standard whiskeys of the world are Scotch (commonly spelled whisky ), Irish, American, and Canadian.

My home is not a place, it is people.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.

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

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

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.

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Scotch, but no peat is used in the curing, and instead of the dry, somewhat smoky flavor of Scotch, it has a full, sweet taste.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
We are what we repeatedly do.
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.

The Iran-contra affair, which broke in late 1986, marred the last years of his tenure, though his vice-president, George H. W. Bush, was nonetheless able to defeat the Democratic nominee, MichaelDukakis, in the 1988 election.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
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.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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.
People fail forward to success.

Things are only impossible until they're not.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

It doesn't matter what kind of book it is.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are 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.'
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

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.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

McKinley through Coolidge

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Republicans unseated long-time Democratic incumbents, winning control of both houses of Congress (for the first time since the 1950s) and claiming several governorships.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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.
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.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Most of the crimes were committed in some closed surroundings with a limited number of people to suspect.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

If present trends continue for the next several decades, our planet will become uninhabitable.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

While alcohol abuse is basically different from alcoholism, it is important to note that many effects of alcohol abuse are also experienced by alcoholics.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
'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.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.

I love it because the nature wakes up ? trees are in blossom, the green grass grows up, the sun shines, birds sing?beautiful!

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.

Yesavage and Leirer (20) found evidence of impairment 14 hours after pilots reached blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) of between 0.10 percent and 0.12 percent.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

There are about 200 professional theatres in Britain.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
A smiling face is half the meal.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

As for me, I am a great cinema-goer.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

nedjelja, 20.06.2010.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

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

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

But it is difficult to buy all books which we want to read.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Days are short and nights are long The weather is cold, rivers and lakes are usually frozen.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Is there life before death?
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
History is more or less bunk.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

Euclid is thought to have lived from 325-265 BC, mostly in Alexandria.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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.

My home, my sweet home...

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Who were these clowns?

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
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.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

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

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

petak, 18.06.2010.

Australia seems to me and other people to be the upside-down world.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Such people see only dark sides in everything and it prevents them from being happy. But look at other people!

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

četvrtak, 17.06.2010.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Love truth, and pardon error.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

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.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
He who laughs, lasts!

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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 summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Nixon's successor, Gerald R. Ford , attempted to disassociate the party from the scandals, but Watergate appeared to be a major factor in the substantial Republican losses in the 1974 elections and in the subsequent defeat of Ford by the Democrat Jimmy C

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.'
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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.

Before long Gulliver undertakes another voyage.

Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

But one of the consperators had several friends in the parliament and he didn't want them to die.

The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

But it is difficult to buy all books which we want to read.

We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

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.

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
No.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Is there life before death?

utorak, 15.06.2010.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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.'
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

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

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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.
Art is science made clear.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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.

Insurgents led by Senator Robert M.

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.
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.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
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.
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.

You can eat a bowl of ice-cream, a pieces of apple pie, strawberries with cream or something like that for dessert.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
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.
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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

When you are taken away by a thrilling plot and by author's vivid imagination or by his humorous remarks or by the way he portrays people, you can't help reading the book from cover to cover, when the life of a literary character is similar to yours, you

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
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.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
No.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
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.
Maybe they were terrorists!
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

utorak, 08.06.2010.

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

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.