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ponedjeljak, 29.11.2010.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Memory feeds imagination.
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.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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 15-session worksite coping-skills intervention designed to reduce work- and family-related risk, to enhance protective factors, and to reduce negative health outcomes was conducted among 136 female secretaries.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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.
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.
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.
My head rang like a gong.

In England the cinema is usually called ?the pictures?.

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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 is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Euclid also founded a great mathematics school in Alexandria.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.

I can eat it anytime and anywhere.

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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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 own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
All movements go too far.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

At first, nobody wanted to live there because it was used as a prison where the British government would send British prisoners.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

More than one-half of the 294 workers attended the sessions. Researchers based their results on data from 120 employees who completed prestudy and poststudy evaluations.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
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.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

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

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

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

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I stand in awe of my body.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

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

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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 happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

As for me, I am a great cinema-goer.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.

Like orchestras, the theatre companies usually play in rented theatres, but there are several theatres which have their own homes.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

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

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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 don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

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.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
The average person thinks he isn't.
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.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Agatha Christie lived between 1890 and 1976. She started writing stories at a very early age, at first to entertain herself.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
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.
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?
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

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

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

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.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
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 have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
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.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

The scientific method of analyzing data and establishing hypotheses, a vital concomitant of academic freedom, was initiated during the Enlightenment , mainly by scholars outside university life such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Voltaire.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

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

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
History is more or less bunk.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

So he wrote a letter to Lord Monteagle begging him to make some excuse to be absent from parliament if he valued his life.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
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.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Many families celebrate cristmas day in the open air near the cristmas tree in order to catch the spirit of cristmas.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Its importance declined with the discovery of an all-water route around Africa in 1498.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.

He was tortured and hanged, Catesby was killed, resisting arrest in his own house.

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

We left our coats in the cloak-room and bought a program from the usher to see what the cast was.

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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.'

utorak, 09.11.2010.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

It was hear that the Dutch built the first building of the town.

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

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.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I am not young enough to know everything.
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.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity 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.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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

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.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

The name was first used by Thomas Jefferson's party, later called the Democratic Republican party or, simply, the Democratic party .

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

I see all the best films that are on.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Walking is man's best medicine.
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 judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Oak, elm, ash, and beech are the commonest trees in England, while Scotland has much pine and birch.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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.

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

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
No.

The Old Royal Albert Hall and the New Royal Festival Hall, which is one of the most modern concert halls in the world.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
All the world's a cage.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Memory feeds imagination.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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 your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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 good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Who were these clowns?
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

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