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srijeda, 27.07.2011.

The library is helpful when I have to make a report, when I need information on some subjects.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

The medieval universities also operated within a field of definite scope, primarily theological, and any teacher or scholar who extended inquiry beyond the approved limits was subject to the charge of heresy.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
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.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.

Yesavage and Leirer (20) found evidence of impairment 14 hours after pilots reached blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) of between 0.10 percent and 0.12 percent.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
People fail forward to success.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Our lives teach us who we are.

They join and support various international organosation and green parties.

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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
I'd learned my lesson.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by 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?

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
My home is not a place, it is people.

Whiskey was made in England in the 11th cent., chiefly in monasteries, but in the 16th cent. distilling was carried on commercially.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Who were these clowns?
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

The 44 countries with a high human suffering rate--all in Africa, Asia, and Latin America--also had an average annual population increase of 2.8%.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

I hate being disturbed when a film is on. If I like a movie very much I go to see it a second time and besides I see many of the movies televised.

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.
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.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

(To help remember these questions, note that the first letter of a key word in each of the four questions spells "CAGE.")

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
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.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

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.'
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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.
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.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
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.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

In the period that followed, the two parties differed little in their programs.

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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
What's another word for Thesaurus?

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.

But anyways whatever you like you should remember words of wisdom which say that we eat to live, but not live to eat.

I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
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.
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.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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.
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 engine died and then the doors swung open.

Every singly person should eat proper kinds of food ý dairy products, meats, fruit and vegetables, fats and sugars, cereals and grains.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

petak, 22.07.2011.

The ground is covered with snow, so a lot of people go skating and skiing.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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 meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

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.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

I travelled with the heroes of the stories.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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.
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.
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.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'

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

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.
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.
Life is consciousness.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

It is over 50 feet high.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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 people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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.

Although it contains 13 volumes, much of the work may not be Euclid's.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects 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.
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.

It is over 50 feet high.

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.
'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.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
My friends are my estate.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

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

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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 despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

But the greatest disadvantage of living in a farmhouse or in a cottage, in my opinion, is that it takes much time to get to the nearest town, but if you have a car it isn't a problem for you.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

On the domestic side, however, Bush's administration was perceived as being slow to respond to such problems as stagnant economic growth, rising unemployment, and the unaffordability of health care for many Americans.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

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.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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."
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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

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.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Life is consciousness.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

The biggest threat to the coastline is pollution. Even much-loved.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
My friends are my estate.

I have never seen anything more wonderful.

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.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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.'

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

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."
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

On another occasion, a student of his questioned the value of learning geometry, much like students today.

My friends are my estate.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
People fail forward to success.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

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