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utorak, 31.08.2010.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

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In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
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.

The election of 1876 indicated that radical Republicanism had lost much of its popular support.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
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.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

What's another word for Thesaurus?
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

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

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your 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."
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

I'd learned my lesson.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Restricting workers' access to alcohol may reduce their drinking.

Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

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.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Miss Marple was absolutely opposite to Poirot.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
A smiling face is half the meal.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

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