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ponedjeljak, 12.10.2009.

Liberals are very broadminded

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

12.10.2009. u 01:31 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
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.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

12.10.2009. u 00:30 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

nedjelja, 11.10.2009.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

11.10.2009. u 23:29 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Read over your compositions

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

11.10.2009. u 22:29 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.

11.10.2009. u 21:46 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

petak, 09.10.2009.

Hares can gambol over the body

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Well done is better than well said.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

09.10.2009. u 23:18 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.

09.10.2009. u 22:17 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

To try to be better is to be better

To try to be better is to be better.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
So little time and so little to do.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
All movements go too far.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

09.10.2009. u 22:13 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

To be able to fill leisure intelligently

I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Each body has its art...
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

09.10.2009. u 21:17 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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 find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

09.10.2009. u 20:16 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Our deeds

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

09.10.2009. u 19:37 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Depend not on another

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

09.10.2009. u 02:15 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

For visions come not to polluted eyes

For visions come not to polluted eyes.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.

09.10.2009. u 01:14 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

četvrtak, 08.10.2009.

I'd never looked down the barrel

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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.
Our lives teach us who we are.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

08.10.2009. u 23:14 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Habituate yourself to walk very far

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

08.10.2009. u 22:36 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

srijeda, 07.10.2009.

There is no end

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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.
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.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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.
My head rang like a gong.
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.
I'd learned my lesson.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

07.10.2009. u 23:52 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

That would be

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.'
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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.

07.10.2009. u 22:52 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

It is nobler to declare

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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 reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

07.10.2009. u 21:51 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I take it that

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
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.

07.10.2009. u 20:50 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

There is always more misery

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.

07.10.2009. u 19:50 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

utorak, 06.10.2009.

I like work

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Is there life before death?
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

06.10.2009. u 04:16 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

There is always some madness in love

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

06.10.2009. u 03:15 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
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.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

06.10.2009. u 02:15 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

We should every night call

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
A 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.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

06.10.2009. u 01:14 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

06.10.2009. u 00:13 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

nedjelja, 04.10.2009.

developed perception

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

04.10.2009. u 23:40 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I felt the doors

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

04.10.2009. u 22:40 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

pressure of conformity

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
My home is not a place, it is people.

04.10.2009. u 21:39 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

A choice is all

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

04.10.2009. u 20:38 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

An idealist is

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

04.10.2009. u 19:37 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

We don't get

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.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
All movements go too far.
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.

04.10.2009. u 04:43 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Of all noises

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

04.10.2009. u 03:43 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The keenest sorrow

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

04.10.2009. u 02:42 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

To be made straight

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.

04.10.2009. u 01:41 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I have it no longer

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Is there life before death?
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

04.10.2009. u 00:41 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

subota, 03.10.2009.

Ordinarily

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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?
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

03.10.2009. u 23:40 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

everything about him

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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.
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 knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

03.10.2009. u 22:39 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I wrote myself

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Never eat more than you can lift.
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.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

03.10.2009. u 21:39 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

women can do that

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
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.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

03.10.2009. u 20:38 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The best way out

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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The best way out is always through.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

03.10.2009. u 19:47 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

when you innovate

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
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.
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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

03.10.2009. u 04:17 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Lack of an idea

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

03.10.2009. u 03:17 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Our own physical body

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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.'
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

03.10.2009. u 02:16 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

The only difference

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Is there life before death?
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
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.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

03.10.2009. u 01:15 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

I'm moving, but don't worry

I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once> told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.

03.10.2009. u 00:14 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

petak, 02.10.2009.

principle of growth

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
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.
Art is science made clear.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

02.10.2009. u 23:14 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Youth is a wonderful thing

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

02.10.2009. u 22:13 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Maybe the most any of us can expect

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

02.10.2009. u 21:12 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

Never misquoted

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

02.10.2009. u 20:12 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

You can have it all.

No.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

02.10.2009. u 19:11 • 0 Komentara • Print • #

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