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nedjelja, 06.02.2011.

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

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.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
To try to be better is to be better.

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

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Now I like to read books on science.

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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.

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.

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.
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 first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Swift creates such a monarch in the king of Brobdingnag.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Life is consciousness.
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.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

But "waving the bloody shirt," as this type of propaganda was styled, was not enough to elect Blaine in 1884.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

petak, 04.02.2011.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Virtually all alcoholism treatment programs also include meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which describes itself as a "worldwide fellowship of men and women who help each other to stay sober."

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
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.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

I personally think that home is a little world where one lives according to his/her own rules. It's a place where you feel comfort, warmth and reliability.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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.
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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Theatrical perfomances are given by theatre companies.

We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

Each party had numerous almost irreconcilable factions, and each avoided taking any real stand on controversial issues, which were generally left to lesser political groups such as the Granger movement and the Greenback party .

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

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.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
People fail forward to success.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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