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subota, 28.08.2010.

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 ca

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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.
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.
Someone went upside my head again.

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

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
My home is not a place, it is people.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

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

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.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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!
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Answering the following four questions can help you find out.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
A joke's a very serious thing.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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

Where facts are few, experts are many.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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 learn many intresting things. From books.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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.
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.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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.

petak, 20.08.2010.

Euclid also founded a great mathematics school in Alexandria.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
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 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.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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?
Walking is man's best medicine.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Homes reflect the way of life and habits of their owners.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The average person thinks he isn't.
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.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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?
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Effects of Employee Drinking

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
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.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
All the world's a cage.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

As for me, I have made up my mind to be an engineer.

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.
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.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.

Limited work supervision, often a problem on evening shifts, has been associated with employee alcohol problems.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.
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.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

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.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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?
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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.

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

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Love truth, and pardon error.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
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.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
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 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
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.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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.
Walking is man's best medicine.
We are what we repeatedly do.

utorak, 10.08.2010.

My home is not a place, it is people.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

In 1952, the more liberal element among the Republicans was able to deny the conservatives' choice, Robert A.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
My home is not a place, it is people.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

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

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.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
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.
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.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

With the election, however, Republican domination of the South and radical rule of the party were definitely ended.

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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Diseases brought by settlers caused many deaths among the aborigines and now there are only about 60 000 of them.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
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.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

It's celebrated on the 25-th of december.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

That's why we get books in libraries.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

And there they found Guy Fawker about to fire a trail of gunpowder.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

ponedjeljak, 09.08.2010.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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 we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

utorak, 03.08.2010.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

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

Who were these clowns?
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Our lives teach us who we are.

To most environmentalists, the data suggest that the planet is already overpopulated.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Many people wonder: Why can some individuals use alcohol without problems, while others are utterly unable to control their drinking?

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

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

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.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.

Its importance declined with the discovery of an all-water route around Africa in 1498.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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.
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.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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.
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.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.

If you are going to live alone, you can prefer a studio to a large apartment.

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.'
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
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?
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.

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

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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
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.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

Because of this division, the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, was elected President and, narrowly reelected in 1916 over Charles Evans Hughes , he served through World War I.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

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.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Ames and colleagues found a positive relationship between the frequency of being "hungover" at work and the frequency of feeling sick at work, sleeping on the job, and having problems with job tasks or co-workers.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The best way out is always through.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
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.'
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Art is science made clear.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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.

So he wrote a letter to Lord Monteagle begging him to make some excuse to be absent from parliament if he valued his life.

What's another word for Thesaurus?
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Memory feeds imagination.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

It probably produces fewer headlines than wars, earthquakes and floods, but it is potentially one of history's greatest dangers to human life on earth.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
So little time and so little to do.
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.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

I remember we were glad to see that Ulanova was dancing the main part.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Art is science made clear.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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.
The average person thinks he isn't.
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.

Bush was generally recognized as strong on foreign policy.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
All movements go too far.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Each body has its art...

nedjelja, 01.08.2010.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.

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