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subota, 26.06.2010.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

In 1964 the conservative wing of the party engineered the nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater , who was, however, defeated in a landslide by Lyndon B. Johnson.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Vigorous writing is concise.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Who were these clowns?
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Is there life before death?
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Each body has its art...
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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 physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.

Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

When two Englishmen are introduced to each other, if they can't think of any thing else to talk about, they talk about weather.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I'd learned my lesson.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

It often rains, both in winter and summer.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

petak, 25.06.2010.

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četvrtak, 24.06.2010.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Is there life before death?

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.
All movements go too far.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.

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.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Who were these clowns?

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
We are what we repeatedly do.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

The autumn months are September, October and November.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
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.

srijeda, 23.06.2010.

The children will sing:" Remember, remember the 5th of November; Gun powder, treason and plot". And they will ask passers-by for "a penny for the Guy" But the children with "the Guy" are not likely to know who or what day they are celebrating.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
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.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

The Reagan-Bush Years to the Present

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
He who laughs, lasts!
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

They can conquer who believe they can.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
I stand in awe of my body.

Blackpool is not officially asafe.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Although the Republican party had become a minority in registration, Nixon failed by fewer than 200,000 votes to defeat John F. Kennedy.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
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.

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
'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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

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.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Never eat more than you can lift.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Then he examined my throat and said that it was a little inflamed.

God creates men, but they choose each other.
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.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

British cinema-goers see mainly English and American films, though many of the foreign films are often shown in London and in the South of the country.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
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 most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

subota, 19.06.2010.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
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?
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

The availability and accessibility of alcohol may influence employee drinking.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Today there live about 17 million of people.

You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
History is more or less bunk.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

? Set a drinking goal for yourself. Some people choose to abstain from alcohol, while others prefer to limit the amount they drink.

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.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
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.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
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 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

A sign at the entrance of the theatre said that "house full".

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.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

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.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

What's another word for Thesaurus?
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.

petak, 18.06.2010.

A less clearly developed corollary of academic freedom is the obligation of all those who enjoy it to pursue the line of open and thorough inquiry regardless of personal considerations.

History is more or less bunk.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The name was first used by Thomas Jefferson's party, later called the Democratic Republican party or, simply, the Democratic party .

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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Have you ever noticed that some people are always grumbling about their endless problems, dissatisfaction in life and even about the dull weather that annoys them?

I am not young enough to know everything.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

? Tolerance: The need for increasing amounts of alcohol in order to get "high."

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

I like to get presents on my birthday. I am happy if it is a book.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
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.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Although he may not have written The Elements entirely on his own, his other works are certainly his alone.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

This new knowledge will help identify individuals at high risk for alcoholism and also will pave the way for the development of new treatments for alcohol-related problems.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.

Living in ancient Alexandria, he wrote The Elements, a geometry textbook used in some places until the twentieth century.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
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.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

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

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Each body has its art...
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I stand in awe of my body.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.

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 y

It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

For example, Brazilians never eat with their hands ? they always use a knife and a fork, even when they eat hotdogs.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

četvrtak, 17.06.2010.

Analysis of existing legislation of Russia confirms its prohibition on gender discrimination.

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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

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

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

For example, Brazilians never eat with their hands ? they always use a knife and a fork, even when they eat hotdogs.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

I remember, I liked thick books.

You always pass failure on the way to success.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

I saw many interesting places and learned a lot of important facts about other countries and people.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Well done is better than well said.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

But in general I'm sure that it's quite nice to live in a semi-detached house.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Maybe they were terrorists!
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Well done is better than well said.

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

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Each body has its art...

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

petak, 11.06.2010.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.