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srijeda, 27.07.2011.

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.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
People fail forward to success.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
I stand in awe of my body.

Another tradition is to send cristmas cards.

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.
Love truth, and pardon error.
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.
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 you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

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

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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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 truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
History is more or less bunk.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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 keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Some people make headlines while others make history.

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
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 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.

A lack of state financing in social programs has caused further tightening in the labor market, particularly for women.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Each body has its art...
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.

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

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.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
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 few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

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