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ponedjeljak, 29.11.2010.

In 1975, however, the canal was reopened and enlarged, and traffic through the sea increased. Suez, Egypt; Elat, Israel; Jidda, Saudi Arabia; Hodeida, Yemen; Massawa, Eritrea; and Port Sudan, Sudan, are the main ports on the Red Sea and its northern arms.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
To try to be better is to be better.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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.
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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
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.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

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

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
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.

This custom was next recorded in the middle ages when German peasants lit tapers on birthday cakes, the number lit indicating the person's age, plus an extra one to represent the light of life. From earliest days burning tapers had been endoued with mysti

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.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

If nothing is done about it, one day nothing will be able to live in the seas.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
History is more or less bunk.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Someone went upside my head again.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

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