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It is the street there most famous theaters are situated.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

I adore my home; I like to be there, because it's always filed with happiness and joy.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
My head rang like a gong.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

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.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
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?

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
So little time and so little to do.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

It's never just a game when you're winning.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
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.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Who were these clowns?
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
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.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

subota, 06.11.2010.

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

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.
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?
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

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

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

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

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Choosing a comfortable hotel to stay at is, therefore, a matter of some importance.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Children find cristmas presents in their stockings.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
History is more or less bunk.

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