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petak, 08.04.2011.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

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'.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
My head rang like a gong.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
My home is not a place, it is people.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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.
No.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
My friends are my estate.

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.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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?
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
History is more or less bunk.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

To help them in this they got Guy Fawker, a soldier of fortune, who would do the actual work.

I didn't even breathe.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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.

You can also build some outhouses like a green-house, a garage, a tool shed or an arbour.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
My friends are my estate.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

He is clever, honest and kind to his people.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
History is more or less bunk.
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.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

The dancers got many curtain calls and were presented with many flowers.

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.
A smiling face is half the meal.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
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.
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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Finns like to eat hot sausages and drink beer in the streets; many Philipinos prefer to eat with their hands.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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.

However, especially if it is cold and wet outside, many people like to stay at home to watch TV.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

The trees begin to blossom. Sometimes it drizzles, but there are no rough winds; the sun shines brightly.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.'
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.

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

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Well done is better than well said.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
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.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

We are what we repeatedly do.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

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.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible th

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.'
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Each body has its art...
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

The Elements was used as the primary geometry resource for over 2000 years, and his lessons could still be used today.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
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."
You always pass failure on the way to success.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

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.

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.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

They weren't wearing insignia.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

However, the Republican tariff policy was the work of leaders of the new industrial capitalism, whose influence in party councils began to be strongly felt under Grant.

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

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.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Things are only impossible until they're not.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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?

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
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.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Never before in the history of the world have businessmen traveled so much as they do today.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
People fail forward to success.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

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

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.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
They weren't wearing insignia.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Maybe they were terrorists!
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
The best way out is always through.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Several million more adults engage in risky drinking patterns that could lead to alcohol problems.

I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

The best way out is always through.

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?
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

Much of the information we do have is from authors like Proclus who lived centuries later, writing about his books, not his life.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Is there life before death?
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

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