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subota, 24.07.2010.

Morrow and colleagues found that pilots were still significantly impaired 8 hours after reaching a BAC of 0.10 percent.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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 have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

I saw many interesting places and learned a lot of important facts about other countries and people.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

The number of ducks, geese and other water fowl has diminished during recent years.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
My home is not a place, it is people.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

My mother fixed me a hot lemonade but that didn't help me much.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
All the world's a cage.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

The ballet seemed to me a fairy-tale. When the last curtain fell, the house burst out into applause.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

It might be useful for travelling businessmen and tourists to know that tailor shops, shoe repair shops and laundry, dry cleaning services are available for guests.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
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.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Some of the chapters seem to be written with different styles, and others are geared for different ages, leading one to believe that he inserted other mathematicians' work into his own.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

But days become shorter and nights longer and darker.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Each body has its art...
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Her room is very cool and light, there are plenty of flowers here, as she has a green thumb.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Walking is man's best medicine.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

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

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.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.

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 o

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.

In addition, alcohol abuse is less likely than alcoholism to include tolerance (the need for increasing amounts of alcohol to get "high").

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
An idea is salvation by imagination.

četvrtak, 22.07.2010.

In fact, King Ptolemy once asked Euclid if there was an easier way to study math than learning all the theorems.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Vigorous writing is concise.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
People fail forward to success.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Well done is better than well said.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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.

Often there is a restaurant, so that it is possible to spend an afternoon and evening there (if you have enough money, of course).

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

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.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.'
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

utorak, 20.07.2010.

Summer is the hottest season of the year and days are longer than in winter.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
I stand in awe of my body.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.

American whiskeys are divided into two main varieties, rye and bourbon, a corn whiskey that derives its name from Bourbon co., Ky.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
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.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

When Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World 1,500 years later, there were approximately 500 million people on earth.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

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

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

But the party supported the nation's war effort and after the war, led by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg , joined the Democratic administration in a bipartisan foreign policy.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
My head rang like a gong.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Who were these clowns?
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

Early cultures, which viewed education as a system of absorbing a well-defined subject matter, offered little opportunity for speculation.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

All movements go too far.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
It's never just a game when you're winning.

They were successful in the elections of 1858 and passed over their better-known leaders to nominate Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Eating too much junk food can cause overweight and as heart-disease.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Our lives teach us who we are.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
An idea is salvation by imagination.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

It's very important to know traditions and customs of different people.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

It's the place where I wake up every morning to the refreshing smell of coffee from the kitchen and where every day of my life starts, that's why it is so important for me.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

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

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.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

nedjelja, 18.07.2010.

A sign at the entrance of the theatre said that "house full".

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

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

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Is there life before death?
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

It is surrounded by exceedingly hot and dry deserts and steppes; the summer water temperature exceeds 85F (29C), and the water has a high salt content.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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.
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.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

However, the Republican tariff policy was the work of leaders of the new industrial capitalism, whose influence in party councils began to be strongly felt under Grant.

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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Euclid also founded a great mathematics school in Alexandria.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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 think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
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.

subota, 17.07.2010.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

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?
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The best way out is always through.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

What Is Alcohol Abuse?

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
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.
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.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

Under Roosevelt's Republican successor and friend, William Howard Taft , "dollar diplomacy" flourished, but a new rift appeared in the party.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Try to answer these questions as fully and honestly as you can.

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 nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

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

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
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.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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.
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.

The Civil War and Reconstruction Years

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
People fail forward to success.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

When, in 1896, the Democratic party was captured by the radicals under William Jennings Bryan , its presidential candidate in 1896, 1900, and 1908, the Republican party became openly the champion of the gold standard and conservative economic doctrines.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
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.

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.

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

I'm extremely fond of reading.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
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.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

srijeda, 14.07.2010.

But be, as you have been, my happiness...

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I'd learned my lesson.

Nonetheless, a substantial number of people have serious trouble with their drinking.

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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.
He who laughs, lasts!
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
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.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

The conservatives, skillfully guided by national chairman Marcus A. Hanna , won with William McKinley in 1896 and 1900, and under such leaders as Nelson W. Aldrich , Thomas B. Reed , Joseph G. Cannon , Thomas C. Platt , and Matthew S. Quay , the party pro

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Then he examined my throat and said that it was a little inflamed.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Maybe they were terrorists!

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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 part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

utorak, 13.07.2010.

Gardens and parks are full of colorful flowers; there are a lot of berries in summer, so some people like to go to a forest to pick them up.

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.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
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 have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

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.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

In America the word ?the movies? is often used.

Never eat more than you can lift.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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 scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

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.

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.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

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

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
My head rang like a gong.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Currently, nearly 30 million Russians - abuse alcohol or are alcoholic.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.

In Brazil the climate is warm and citizens wear shorts and T-shirts there almost whole year.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

and kind of casks in which they are matured. Irish whiskey resembles

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

So I know it for sure that appearances are deceptive.

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.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
I stand in awe of my body.
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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Union military failures early in the war and conservative opposition to such measures as the Emancipation Proclamation caused the party to lose ground in the Congressional elections of 1862. But despite mutterings against his leadership, Lincoln, renomina

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

You also will be given a physical examination.

Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

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

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

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 freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

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.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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 barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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'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'.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

There are many other works of Euclid which appear to be lost to time, but his primary work in The Elements is what made him famous.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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!

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
A poem is no place for an idea.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

We found our seats which were in the stalls and went exploring the theatre.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

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

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

But it is difficult to buy all the books which we want to read.

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
To try to be better is to be better.
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.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

The climate in Great Britain is generally mild and temperate due to the influence of the Gulf Stream. The south-western winds carry the warmth and moisture into Britain. The climate in Britain is usually described as cool, temperate and humid.

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.
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.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

My mother bought beforehand two tickets for a matinee perfomance of the ballet "Sleeping Beauty" by Chaikovsky.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

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.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Any of these treatments may be provided in a hospital or residential treatment setting or on an outpatient basis.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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.

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

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

ponedjeljak, 12.07.2010.

Although he may not have written The Elements entirely on his own, his other works are certainly his alone.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Maybe they were terrorists!
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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?

But be, as you have been, my happiness...

Now we were descending just as steeply.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

The Red Sea was an important trade route in antiquity.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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.

I have never seen anything more wonderful.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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.

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.

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.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

For example, it is much better to eat an apple or a banana than to eat a double hamburger with ketchup and mayonnaise.

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.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

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

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

nedjelja, 11.07.2010.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

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.

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.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

I am fond of good books and good music, and when I have some time to spare, I like to go to the theatre or a concert.

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.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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.

Art is science made clear.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
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.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Walking is man's best medicine.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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.

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.

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

? Tolerance: The need for increasing amounts of alcohol in order to get "high."

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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.
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 next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Who were these clowns?
My home is not a place, it is people.

subota, 10.07.2010.

During a normal summer the temperature sometimes rises above 30 degrees in the south.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

It is the longest and the widest street in New York.

Walking is man's best medicine.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
My head rang like a gong.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
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.
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.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

To others, it is an intrusion into their personal privacy and freedom.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Well done is better than well said.

Another tradition is to send cristmas cards.

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Our lives teach us who we are.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
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 cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

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.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

However, even individuals who are determined to stay sober may suffer one or several "slips," or relapses, before achieving long-term sobriety.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

petak, 09.07.2010.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

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.

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.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
A poem is no place for an idea.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
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.

Does teaching people appeal to you?

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
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.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
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.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

There are many other works of Euclid which appear to be lost to time, but his primary work in The Elements is what made him famous.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

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 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 respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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 art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Always after a hard day I return home and think "At last I came home". For me there is no place like home.

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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

In the case of scholars, whose occupation is directly involved with that right, the concept of academic freedom generally includes the property right of tenure of office (see tenure , in education). Essential to the acceptance of the concept of academic f

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
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.
We are what we repeatedly do.

My mother says that books help us in self-education.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
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.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Well done is better than well said.
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.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Walking is man's best medicine.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Art is science made clear.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

And only in 1606 Dutch sailors reached the shores of the unknown continent, but it was not settled till the English Captain Cook discovered the East Coast in 1770.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Art is science made clear.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.