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četvrtak, 24.02.2011.

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.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Hoover in 1928 marked the first time since the end of Reconstruction that the party had carried states of the old Confederacy; this came about chiefly because the Democratic candidate, Alfred E. Smith, was a Roman Catholic and an opponent of prohibition.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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.
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.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

There are promising types of counseling that teach recovering alcoholics to identify situations and feelings that trigger the urge to drink and to find new ways to cope that do not include alcohol use.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

First tradition is called "Wrong side of the bed" When people are bad tempered we say that they must have got out of bed on the wrong side. Originally, it was meant quiet literally. People belive that the way they rose in the morning affected their behaiv

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.
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.

We should eat fats and sugars in moderation, because too much fats and sugars can cause different heart-diseases.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

petak, 11.02.2011.

He wrote a for a gargle and cough medicine.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

His work in geometry led to discovery after discovery in history, and provided the basis for mathematical education for 2000 years.

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
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.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Eating fruit and vegetables helps to keep us healthy too because they give us fibre, vitamins and minerals.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

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.

He who laughs, lasts!
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.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Now there are a lot of books in the shops, there are many books in our flats.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
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.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
History is more or less bunk.
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.
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.
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.'
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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.

I think it is necessary to follow these rules.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.

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

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

What Is Alcohol Abuse?

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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

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.
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.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

There are some problems in our life and sometimes it is difficult to solve them.

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.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

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.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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 lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

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