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ponedjeljak, 29.11.2010.

In this work Swift intended to satirise the evils of the existing society in the form of fictions travels.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Some project that if everyone existed at a minimum survival level, the earth could support 20 to 48 billion people.

I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
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.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
We are what we repeatedly do.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

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.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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.
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.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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

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.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
I am not young enough to know everything.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
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.

Miss Marple was absolutely opposite to Poirot.

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.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

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

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
All movements go too far.
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.
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.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

subota, 27.11.2010.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

There are four seasons in a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter. December, January and February are winter months.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Love truth, and pardon error.
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 world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
They weren't wearing insignia.

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

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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 never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

The choice of books in our school library is very good. There are many short stories and novels, textbooks and reference books, dictionaries and encyclopedias there.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

The book is a faithful and undemanding friend.

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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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 bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

For example, do you like working alone or with others?

I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

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

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

Industrial enterprises emit tons of harmful substunces.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

utorak, 09.11.2010.

It is winter now.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

I personally think that home is a little world where one lives according to his/her own rules. It's a place where you feel comfort, warmth and reliability.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Never eat more than you can lift.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

Other analysts believe the earth could support 7 to 12 billion people at a decent standard of living by distributing the world's land and food supply more equitably and shifting from less abundant resources (such as lead, tin, uranium, oil, and natural g

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.
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.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

A joke's a very serious thing.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
Vigorous writing is concise.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
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.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Love truth, and pardon error.
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.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.

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