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srijeda, 30.09.2009.

Ask not what you can do for your country

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

30.09.2009. u 07:14 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

America nowadays except

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

30.09.2009. u 06:13 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Each of us contains within

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

30.09.2009. u 05:10 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Censorship like charity

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

30.09.2009. u 04:12 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Reading well is one of the great pleasures

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

30.09.2009. u 03:11 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Exercise ferments the humors

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.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

30.09.2009. u 02:10 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

For visions come not to polluted eyes

For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Memory feeds imagination.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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?
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 only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

30.09.2009. u 01:09 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Be honorable yourself if you wish

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

30.09.2009. u 00:08 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

utorak, 29.09.2009.

Therefore search

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

29.09.2009. u 07:53 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

People fail forward

People fail forward to success.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

29.09.2009. u 07:09 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I can reach for

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

29.09.2009. u 06:52 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It is fortunate to be

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The best way out is always through.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Art is science made clear.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

29.09.2009. u 05:52 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

they arrive

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

29.09.2009. u 04:51 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Against stupidity

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
History is more or less bunk.

29.09.2009. u 03:51 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

To lengthen thy

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

29.09.2009. u 02:50 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

But above all

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.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

29.09.2009. u 01:58 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

nedjelja, 27.09.2009.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once> told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

27.09.2009. u 03:50 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
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?
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

27.09.2009. u 03:34 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Our lives teach us who we are.

Our lives teach us who we are.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

27.09.2009. u 02:51 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It is a good rule in life never to apologize.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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.

27.09.2009. u 02:32 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
So little time and so little to do.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once> told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

27.09.2009. u 01:58 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

27.09.2009. u 01:29 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

27.09.2009. u 00:59 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

27.09.2009. u 00:25 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

petak, 25.09.2009.

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

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.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

_________________
LJ

25.09.2009. u 07:55 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
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.
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 07:03 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

he most erroneous stories are those we think we know best

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.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
All the world's a cage.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

_________________
LJ

25.09.2009. u 06:18 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little

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 great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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.

_________________
LJ

25.09.2009. u 06:02 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 05:37 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

we don't need self-recrimination or blame or ange

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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."
Never eat more than you can lift.

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 05:08 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Best wide-angle lens?

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 04:59 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
History is more or less bunk.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

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LJ

25.09.2009. u 04:02 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

četvrtak, 24.09.2009.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.

_________________
LJ

24.09.2009. u 05:27 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
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.

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LJ

24.09.2009. u 04:25 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

History is more or less

History is more or less bunk.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

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LJ

24.09.2009. u 02:26 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I am not young enough to know everything

I am not young enough to know everything.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

24.09.2009. u 01:23 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Ask what's for lunch.

Ask

not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with

enthusiasm.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Be

honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Posterity is as

likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on

thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most

personal map of our individuality.

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srijeda, 23.09.2009.

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

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LJ

23.09.2009. u 23:25 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Never rely on the glory of the morning

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

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LJ

23.09.2009. u 23:19 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
I have come to the conclusion that politics

are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
He who laughs, lasts!
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.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
If you don't know where

you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

23.09.2009. u 23:19 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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.
So little time and so little to do.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

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LJ

23.09.2009. u 23:12 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Reality is that which

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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 best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
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 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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

23.09.2009. u 22:13 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

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23.09.2009. u 22:07 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I sent the club a wire stating

I sent the club a wire stating,
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

23.09.2009. u 21:55 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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.
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.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

23.09.2009. u 21:08 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

My friends are my estate.

My friends are my estate.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

23.09.2009. u 21:04 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

subota, 19.09.2009.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

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.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
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.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.