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petak, 08.04.2011.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

A joke's a very serious thing.
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.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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 first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.






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08.04.2011. u 08:31 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

The reform wing of the party, led by Carl Schurz, deserted Blaine for the conservative Democrat Grover Cleveland, who was elected.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.






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08.04.2011. u 08:24 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.






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08.04.2011. u 08:20 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

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

Someone went upside my head again.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.






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08.04.2011. u 08:14 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

Euclid then replied, "There is no royal road to geometry," and sent one of the most powerful kings of his time off to study.

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.
All movements go too far.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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.
So little time and so little to do.






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08.04.2011. u 07:57 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.






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08.04.2011. u 07:37 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

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

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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 mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.






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08.04.2011. u 07:25 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.






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08.04.2011. u 07:22 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

If present trends continue for the next several decades, our planet will become uninhabitable.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.






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08.04.2011. u 07:21 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

The Old Royal Albert Hall and the New Royal Festival Hall, which is one of the most modern concert halls in the world.

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.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.






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08.04.2011. u 07:15 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

In the United States this is known as moonshining.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
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.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.






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08.04.2011. u 07:13 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

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.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.






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08.04.2011. u 06:47 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 made the Red Sea one of the chief shipping routes connecting Europe with East Asia and Australia.

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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.






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08.04.2011. u 06:47 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

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.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.






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08.04.2011. u 06:21 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.






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08.04.2011. u 06:13 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.






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08.04.2011. u 05:15 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

Taft , choosing instead the popular war hero, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as their presidential nominee.

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.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.'
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.






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08.04.2011. u 04:15 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

Benjamin Harrison defeated Cleveland in 1888 but lost to him in 1892.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
History is more or less bunk.






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08.04.2011. u 03:58 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
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.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.






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08.04.2011. u 03:48 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Vigorous writing is concise.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.






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08.04.2011. u 03:27 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

Even the best of friends need time apart.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
An idea is salvation by imagination.






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08.04.2011. u 02:20 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
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.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.






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08.04.2011. u 01:52 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.






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08.04.2011. u 01:27 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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.






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08.04.2011. u 01:23 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Is there life before death?






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08.04.2011. u 01:21 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

People fail forward to success.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.






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08.04.2011. u 00:51 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

Currently, nearly 30 million Russians - abuse alcohol or are alcoholic.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.






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08.04.2011. u 00:37 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

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.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.






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08.04.2011. u 00:28 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

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

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
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.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.






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08.04.2011. u 00:24 • 0 KomentaraPrint#

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