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subota, 27.11.2010.

I remember, I liked thick books.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Someone went upside my head again.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

? Continued drinking despite having ongoing relationship problems that are caused or worsened by the effects of alcohol.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
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.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

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.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
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.
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.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

The name Wall Street remained from our days.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

While bills were passed on the key program components, many items were thwarted or defeated in Congress or by the president.

My home is not a place, it is people.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Memory feeds imagination.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Memory feeds imagination.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

We all know how tragic the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are.

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.
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 two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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!
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

By midway through this century, at the end of World War II, the number had risen to just above 2 billion people.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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.

The Great Barrier Reef on the coast of Queensland is a garden under the sea.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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 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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

While alcoholism is a treatable disease, a cure is not yet available.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
My home is not a place, it is people.
I never know how much of what I say is true.

Twenty-four percent reported any drinking at work at least once during the year before the survey.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Worries go down better with soup than without.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Each volume begins with pages of definitions and postulates, followed by his theorems.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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.
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'.

I'm extremely fond of reading.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Life is consciousness.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

I usually go to the cinema for the morning or day shows.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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.

In 1948 the Republican party was supremely confident of defeating Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

It is an economic, financial, scientific and cultural center.

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.
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.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

History is more or less bunk.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
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.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

One cannot speak about England without speaking about it's traditions and customs .

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

I'm sure that home of a person is as much a reflection of his personality, as the clothes he wears, the food he eats, the books he reads and the friends he spends his time with.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
To try to be better is to be better.

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

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
A joke's a very serious thing.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

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.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
He who laughs, lasts!
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

La Follette balked at the party's conservatism and when the regulars renominated Taft in 1912, most of the dissidents withdrew and in the Bull

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Love truth, and pardon error.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

The perfomance was a great success with the public.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Who were these clowns?
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

It is over 50 feet high.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

The perfomance was a great success with the public.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

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.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

utorak, 16.11.2010.

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

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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 am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Is there life before death?

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Who were these clowns?
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Is there life before death?

It often rains, both in winter and summer.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
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 coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
He who laughs, lasts!
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The best way out is always through.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

My friends are my estate.
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!'
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
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.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

The children will sing:" Remember, remember the 5th of November; Gun powder, treason and plot". And they will ask passers-by for "a penny for the Guy" But the children with "the Guy" are not likely to know who or what day they are celebrating.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.
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.

subota, 06.11.2010.

79 shot stories, 4 non-fiction ones and 19 plays were written by that strange woman.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
All the world's a cage.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

They are very important in the life of English people.Englishman are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up.

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 am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Passengers must register their tickets, weigh in and register the luggage.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Art is science made clear.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
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.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

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

Is there life before death?
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.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
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.

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

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
They weren't wearing insignia.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

After 6 months, 76 percent of the heaviest drinkers reportedly reduced their alcohol consumption.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Also he gave me some sulfa pills, a slip for X-Ray and blood examination.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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.'
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

"We cannot continue to use our seas as a dustbin and expect our coastline to survive," says Greenpeace.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

The engine died and then the doors swung open.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I didn't even breathe.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

The national academy of sciences and the library of congress are in Washington too.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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 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.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

The effects of alcohol abuse can be extremely serious--even fatal--both to you and to others.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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!
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.
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.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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.

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.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
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.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Love truth, and pardon error.
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.
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.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

My first impressions about her were far from my opinion about her now. At first she seemed to me so correct, obedient and shy that I didn't like her at all, but when we began to communicate closer I understood I was mistaken. I think it makes sense to say

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.

četvrtak, 04.11.2010.

The fireplaces are often used. but the coal is not used as it's very expensive.

A poem is no place for an idea.
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?
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
All movements go too far.
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 little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

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.'
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
History is more or less bunk.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

When settlement began in 1788 the continent was inhabited by about 300 000 people, who are now called aborigines.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

They are filled with poison: industrial and nuclear waste, chemical fertilisers and pesticides.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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.'
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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?
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.