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petak, 18.03.2011.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Where facts are few, experts are many.

I can eat it anytime and anywhere.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

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

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

When settlement began in 1788 the continent was inhabited by about 300 000 people, who are now called aborigines.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
A joke's a very serious thing.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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?
Our lives teach us who we are.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

In this fast-moving world it is necessary to watch what we eat ? it should be healthy food, not junk one, which has become very popular.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Assassinated shortly after taking office, Garfield was succeeded by Vice President Chester A. Arthur .

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Having thought carefully about the sort of person you are, try to work out a realistic set pf occupational requirment.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Vigorous writing is concise.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

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

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
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.
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.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Campaigning against the domestic policy of the Truman administration and its prosecution of the war in Korea, Eisenhower swept to a landslide victory over the Democratic candidate, Adlai E. Stevenson .

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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

London is also the main center of opera and ballet.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
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.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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.

The party, however, suffered a series of massive setbacks with the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew upon his conviction for tax evasion and revelations of major White House involvement in the Watergate affair, which led finally to the resignation

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
I'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.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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.

Over 3 billion books by Agatha Christie were sold worldwide.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
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.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I didn't even breathe.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

Alcohol Availability.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Art is science made clear.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

The room is always filled with the sounds of music.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

srijeda, 16.03.2011.

Sydney is the best known place in New South Wales.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

If you take to reading, the world of other people's ideas and problems becomes familiar to you.

I never know how much of what I say is true.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
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.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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.

He who laughs, lasts!

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

In America the word ?the movies? is often used.

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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
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 cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

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