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ponedjeljak, 29.11.2010.

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My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Never eat more than you can lift.
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.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
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.'

Even after the first few minutes in our flat you can understand all hospitality and friendliness of this place and the family which lives there.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

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

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

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.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
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.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

Former Senate majority leader Bob Dole won the Republican nomination for the presidency, but he and his running mate, Jack Kemp , were never able to reduce significantly President Clinton's substantial lead. In the House and Senate, Republicans retained t

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.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
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.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Here there are a lot of things that make this room look nice; she has a lot of toys which sit on her bed, on the shelves and on the windowsill. She collects statues of cats that she brings from different countries, it characterizes her as a broad-minded p

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.

The first voyage was to a strange country Lilliput.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
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.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
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 comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
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.
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.
Memory feeds imagination.
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.
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.

subota, 27.11.2010.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

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."
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
They can conquer who believe they can.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

They are very important in the life of English people.Englishman are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.

Under Roosevelt's Republican successor and friend, William Howard Taft , "dollar diplomacy" flourished, but a new rift appeared in the party.

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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.

There is not much rain, and drought is a constant anxiety.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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.

Many developing countries, such as India, Egypt, Nigeria, Lybia, etc have excellent hotels.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
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.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

The scientific method of analyzing data and establishing hypotheses, a vital concomitant of academic freedom, was initiated during the Enlightenment , mainly by scholars outside university life such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Voltaire.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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.

As my parents are an engineeres they have made a great influence on my choice and I can say that this profession runs the family.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The best way out is always through.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Art is science made clear.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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.
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Bush secured the presidency with a victory in the electoral college when he won Florida by an extremely narrow margin and outlasted Gore's unsuccessful court challenge of the Florida vote-counting process.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

History is more or less bunk.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
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.
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.

Walking is man's best medicine.

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
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.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

I usually take books from school library.

Memory feeds imagination.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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 first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

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

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
People fail forward to success.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

? Have you ever felt bad or Guilty about your drinking?

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

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 am not young enough to know everything.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

It probably produces fewer headlines than wars, earthquakes and floods, but it is potentially one of history's greatest dangers to human life on earth.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Life is consciousness.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
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 gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Euclid responded by giving the small child a coin, saying that "he must make gain out of what he learns."

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Their numerous facilities include both: large and small cocktail barber's shops and conference halls, equipped with simultaneous, multilingual translation systems.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Many larger mammals such as bear, wolf have been hunted to extinction, others are now protected by law.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

One can see a table near the window and two bookshelves on the wall with books, the majority of them are fiction, as my group mate really likes to read, she is an educated person.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

There are five universities in the city.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.

The choice of books in our school library is very good. There are many short stories and novels, textbooks and reference books, dictionaries and encyclopedias there.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
My friends are my estate.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

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

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be o

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Often there is a restaurant, so that it is possible to spend an afternoon and evening there (if you have enough money, of course).

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.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

While some people are able to recover without help, the majority of alcoholic individuals need outside assistance to recover from their disease.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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.

utorak, 09.11.2010.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

"Cutting down" on drinking doesn't work; cutting out alcohol is necessary for a successful recovery.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Cristmas day is one of their favorite holidays.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow 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.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
A poem is no place for an idea.

In Britain the choice of films is limited to young people.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

It was hear that the Dutch built the first building of the town.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
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.
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.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

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.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
All the world's a cage.
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.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
All the world's a cage.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Home is a place that awakens the most pleasant feelings and high emotions in soul of every person.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
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.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
To try to be better is to be better.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.

Even those who are helped by AA usually find that AA works best in combination with other elements of treatment, including counseling and medical care.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
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.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

It's better to stay neutral until the moment when you can say for sure that you know this or that person pretty well to say he is a person who deserves (or doesn't deserve) faith, understanding or attention. It's my life motto since I've made such a mista

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

With support and treatment, many individuals are able to stop drinking and rebuild their lives.

My home is not a place, it is people.
My head rang like a gong.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

Now we were descending just as steeply.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

The work began in 1913. Now, Canberra is an international city, full of diplomats and government offices.

History is more or less bunk.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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 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.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.

Depression and World War II

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Each body has its art...

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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.
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.

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.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
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.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
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.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.