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srijeda, 27.07.2011.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
'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.
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 coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Who were these clowns?
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

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

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

In Cairo just breathing the air is life threatening- equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

It is a good idea to begin by attempting to define in clear terms what your requirements are from a career.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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.
So little time and so little to do.
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.
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.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

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.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
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.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

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.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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.

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