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četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

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 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.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

The novel describes the tragic fate of a boy and a girl, Clyde and Roberta by name. It is a sad story.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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!
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Also I had a splitting headache and a cough.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

British people say: "Other countries have a climate, in England we have weather."

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Who were these clowns?
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

The party did not fair as well in other races for national office, and the Democrats made gains in Congress, although the Republicans retained control there.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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?
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
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.

utorak, 09.11.2010.

I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
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.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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.
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.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
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.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

The business center of New York is near Wall Street.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
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.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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 don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

Most airlines have at least 2 classes of travel: first class and economy class which is cheaper.

People fail forward to success.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
My home is not a place, it is people.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

The Republican "old guard," led by Roscoe Conkling , while failing to secure a third nomination for Grant in 1880, nevertheless temporarily blocked the presidential aspirations of James G. Blaine .

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.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

In the 2000 elections, the party's presidential nominee, George W. Bush appeared generally to lead in the polls in what ultimately became a popular-vote loss to Democrat Al Gore.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

It is a civil right that is enjoyed, at least in statute, by all citizens of democratic countries.

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.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
My head rang like a gong.
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.
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.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

The Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez are the sea's northern arms; between them is the Sinai peninsula.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
So little time and so little to do.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

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