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četvrtak, 30.09.2010.

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.

Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

I am fond of good books and good music, and when I have some time to spare, I like to go to the theatre or a concert.

So little time and so little to do.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.

Also in summer many people leave their cities and spend much time in the country or at the seaside.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

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

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

In 1952, the more liberal element among the Republicans was able to deny the conservatives' choice, Robert A.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

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.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
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.
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.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

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.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Art is science made clear.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
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 a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

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

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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 try to be better is to be better.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

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 first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

In memory of that day bonfires are still lighted, fireworks shoot across the November sky and figures of Guy Fawker are burnt in the streets.

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.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Is there life before death?
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

I stand in awe of my body.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
History is more or less bunk.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

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 th

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

utorak, 28.09.2010.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Memory feeds imagination.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Cereals and grains are important for us because they provide us with the energy we need for physical activity.

We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
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.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

And as you have a neighbour you can always turn to him if you need something, though from time to time your neighbour can disturb you when he repairs his part of the house or listens to music too loudly.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

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

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Swift ridicults the scientists of the 18'th century.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

The Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden, received a popular plurality of over 250,000 votes, but the disputed electoral votes of Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana, the only Southern states still under Republican control, were awarded to Rutherfor

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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'.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Each body has its art...
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
'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.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Diseases brought by settlers caused many deaths among the aborigines and now there are only about 60 000 of them.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

I like to read stories about heroes, great travelers, explorers, and courageous men.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

? Recurring alcohol-related legal problems, such as being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or for physically hurting someone while drunk;

I stand in awe of my body.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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.

They found a high correlation between the level of human suffering and the rate of population increase in countries. The 30 countries falling in the extreme human-suffering range--all in Africa and Asia--averaged a high annual rate of population increase

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
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.

By straddling the issue of the League of Nations and calling for a return to "normalcy," the party easily elected Warren G. Harding in 1920.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
History is more or less bunk.

They see people overpopulation in MDCs (more developed countries) as threats to Earth's life support systems for us and other species.

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.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
So little time and so little to do.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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.
Each body has its art...
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Its candidate, Horace Greeley, although supported by the Democrats, was not popular enough to defeat Grant in 1872, and corruption became even more widespread.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.

Now there are many books in the shops.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Memory feeds imagination.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Memory feeds imagination.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I didn't even breathe.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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 trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
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.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.

(To help remember these questions, note that the first letter of a key word in each of the four questions spells "CAGE.")

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Art is science made clear.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

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.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

His work in Data is probably the most famous of his smaller works, and focuses on finding certain measurements and quantities when others are given.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Our lives teach us who we are.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

ponedjeljak, 27.09.2010.

The party, however, won the Congressional elections of 1918, and Republican opposition was a large factor in defeating Wilson's peace program.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Whiskey was made in England in the 11th cent., chiefly in monasteries, but in the 16th cent. distilling was carried on commercially.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

The Republican victory with Herbert C.

I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Life is consciousness.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Things are only impossible until they're not.

However, in practice, there are no real mechanisms of women?s rights fulfillment as well as for their active participation in social life.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

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.

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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
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.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

The most of Australia is a semi-desert so most people in Australia live in South - East.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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 dreadful than imagination without taste.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

As for me, I am a great cinema-goer.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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.
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.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

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

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Who were these clowns?
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

The ground is covered with snow, so a lot of people go skating and skiing.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

The nomination of the war hero Ulysses S. Grant assured Republican success over the Democrats led by Horatio Seymour in the presidential election of 1868.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

The day fixed for attempt was the 5th of November, the day on which the Parliament was to open.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

nedjelja, 26.09.2010.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

subota, 25.09.2010.

You will see too small groups of children pulling round in a home made cart, a figure that looks something like a man but consists of an old suit of clothes, stuffed with straw.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

And only in 1606 Dutch sailors reached the shores of the unknown continent, but it was not settled till the English Captain Cook discovered the East Coast in 1770.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
People fail forward to success.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
No.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

This custom was next recorded in the middle ages when German peasants lit tapers on birthday cakes, the number lit indicating the person's age, plus an extra one to represent the light of life. From earliest days burning tapers had been endoued with mysti

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
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.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

But then Australians decided to build a capital city..

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

So little time and so little to do.

History is more or less bunk.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

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

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
My head rang like a gong.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Then printing came into our life.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.

The medieval universities also operated within a field of definite scope, primarily theological, and any teacher or scholar who extended inquiry beyond the approved limits was subject to the charge of heresy.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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.'
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

She was just an old spinster, very modest but perceptive and not a flamboyant personality, who acted as a detective just by virtue of taking thought.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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.

The heart of the New York is Manhattan.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.

and kind of casks in which they are matured. Irish whiskey resembles

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.

ponedjeljak, 20.09.2010.

However, in practice, there are no real mechanisms of women?s rights fulfillment as well as for their active participation in social life.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
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.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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."
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

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

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Never eat more than you can lift.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

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

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Flats can be of different sizes: one-roomed, two-roomed, three-roomed, so one can choose a flat he/she likes.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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.
People fail forward to success.
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.'
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.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Is there life before death?
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
To try to be better is to be better.

Also it is very important for our health.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Newly made whiskey is colorless, the rich brown of the matured liquor being acquired from the cask in which it is stored. Canadian whiskey has a characteristic lightness of body and must, according to law, be produced from cereal grain only.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
People fail forward to success.

nedjelja, 19.09.2010.

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
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.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

His work was translated into Latin and Arabic, and was first printed in mass quantity in 1482, ten years before Columbus, but 1800 years AFTER it was written! From that point until the early 1900's, The Elements was considered by far the best geometry tex

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

The weather in Britain changes very quickly. One day may be fine and the next day may be wet.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
History is more or less bunk.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

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.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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.
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.'
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

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

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

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

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

It is the street there most famous theaters are situated.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
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.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Films are placed in one of three categories in Britain. "U" - suitable for everybody, "A" - more suitable for adults, "X" - suitable only for adults.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

According to United Nations Gender Organization data, 67 percent of those unemployed in Russia are women.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.
Vigorous writing is concise.
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.

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

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

In either case, it is important that you see your doctor or other health care provider right away to discuss your responses to these questions.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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.

Eating habits are different in different countries.

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.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

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

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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.
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.
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.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Maybe they were terrorists!

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

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.
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.
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.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
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.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

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

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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Memory feeds imagination.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

I pay attention to the cover of the book, its illustrations, the name of the author, the title of the book and the contents.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Choosing a comfortable hotel to stay at is, therefore, a matter of some importance.

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.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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.'
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

In 1952, the more liberal element among the Republicans was able to deny the conservatives' choice, Robert A.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
People fail forward to success.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I'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

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
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 summer night is like a perfection of thought.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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.

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.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Red Sea- ancient Sinus Arabicus or Erythraean Sea, narrow sea, c.440,300 sq km, c.2,330 km long and up to 225 mi (362 km) wide, between Africa (Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea) and the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia and Yemen); a part of the Great Rift Valley.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

In 1960, an incumbent Vice President, Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president for the first time since 1836.

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.

A book is one of the greatest wonders of the world.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

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.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Now we were descending just as steeply.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Tasmania, the island south of Australia, is small.

I didn't even breathe.
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.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
He who laughs, lasts!
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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.

Australia is a country of almost 3 million square miles far from other countries that's why it wasn't discovered for a long time.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
I didn't even breathe.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

We are what we repeatedly do.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

In a survey of 6,540 employees at 16 worksites representing a range of industries, 23 percent of upper-level managers reported any drinking during working hours in the previous month.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
An idea is salvation by imagination.

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

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.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Memory feeds imagination.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

četvrtak, 16.09.2010.

Many other ecological problems may be caused by privatization of the coast.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
All the world's a cage.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Other research is investigating the ways in which genetic and environmental factors combine to cause alcoholism.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.

In Other words, from the beginning of humanity's appearance on earth to 1945, it took more than ten thousand generations to reach a world population of 2 billion people.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

And as you have a neighbour you can always turn to him if you need something, though from time to time your neighbour can disturb you when he repairs his part of the house or listens to music too loudly.

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.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

The growing Populist party , with its radical program, had a peculiar position in those elections, receiving in each section of the country the support of the party not in power.

An idea is salvation by imagination.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.
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.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

The hands behind me gave me another shove.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Vigorous writing is concise.

ponedjeljak, 13.09.2010.

Also I had a splitting headache and a cough.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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 next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Meeting people for the first time we always make a judgment based on their appearances though the proverb tells us not to make such a mistake.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

All movements go too far.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Vigorous writing is concise.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

There are two kinds of gold in Western Australia.

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.
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 never know how much of what I say is true.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

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.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
I'd learned my lesson.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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.
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.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

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.'
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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.'
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.