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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.

Nixon's successor, Gerald R. Ford , attempted to disassociate the party from the scandals, but Watergate appeared to be a major factor in the substantial Republican losses in the 1974 elections and in the subsequent defeat of Ford by the Democrat Jimmy C

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

Australia is sometimes called ýthe lucky countryý.

I didn't even breathe.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.

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

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

I love every corner and every thing in my flat.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
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.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Droughts are rare.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
No.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
No.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
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.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Art is science made clear.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

Her room is very cosy, though it isn't very large.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

The driest period is from March to June and the wettest months are from October to January.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

Or vice versa sometimes a really tasty candy is hidden under very unattractive wrapping paper. The same I can say about people.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

The room is always filled with the sounds of music.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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 must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
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.

It is often cold.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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?
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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 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.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

All movements go too far.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

To try to be better is to be better.

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
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.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

New York is the largest city in USA.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

No.
History is more or less bunk.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Female unemployment is rising at a catastrophically high rate.

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.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

When, in 1896, the Democratic party was captured by the radicals under William Jennings Bryan , its presidential candidate in 1896, 1900, and 1908, the Republican party became openly the champion of the gold standard and conservative economic doctrines.

Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

Some project that if everyone existed at a minimum survival level, the earth could support 20 to 48 billion people.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.

Industrial enterprises emit tons of harmful substunces.

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'.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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.
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.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

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For example, in Britain the weather is often rainy, summer there is quite warm, but windy.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

They weren't wearing insignia.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
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.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

So, we may say that the British climate has three main features: it is mild, humid and changeable.

No.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

But it is difficult to buy all the books which we want to read.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

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.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Things are only impossible until they're not.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

These books excite my imagination. I think I devote much time to reading.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Vigorous writing is concise.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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.

But these places are also holy to the Aboriginals.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

Swift's imagination the bitterness of his satire reach their climax in the third part where he shows the academy of sciences in Laputa (the author touches upon all the existing sciences).

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Cinema-going is more popular in industrial towns in the North of England and Scotland than in the South.

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.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

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.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
No.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

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.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

You can learn many things from books.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
He who laughs, lasts!
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

The Scotch Highland whisky (made in pot stills) and that of the Lowlands (patent stills) differ in the percentage of barley used, quality of the water

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.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Summer is the hottest season of the year and days are longer than in winter.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
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.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

South Australia is the driest of all the states, but it does have Murrey River.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

I believe that my bedroom also tells a lot about me to people who visit it.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Well done is better than well said.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

Now Washington is the residents of the president and the congress.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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.
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.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

I can eat it anytime and anywhere.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

The highest buildings are Impure State Building and the united national building.

Someone went upside my head again.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

So I'm interested in different kinds of books.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
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.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
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.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

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 dreadful than imagination without taste.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Maybe they were terrorists!

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I didn't even breathe.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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 wom

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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

On another occasion, a student of his questioned the value of learning geometry, much like students today.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
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.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Passengers must register their tickets, weigh in and register the luggage.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

All movements go too far.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Only person over 16 years of age may see "X" films.

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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
History is more or less bunk.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

It is usually warm, so people go outside more often and enjoy spring blue sky.

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
A smiling face is half the meal.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

I think we can't live without books.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The best way out is always through.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
I stand in awe of my body.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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 trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

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.

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.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
I was sick of cars driving right past me.