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srijeda, 27.07.2011.
Dutch settlers founded the city in 17 century.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
So little time and so little to do.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
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 claustrophob
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Former Senate majority leader Bob Dole won the Republican nomination for the presidency, but he and his running mate, Jack Kemp , were never able to reduce significantly President Clinton's substantial lead. In the House and Senate, Republicans retained t
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Walking is man's best medicine.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Each volume begins with pages of definitions and postulates, followed by his theorems.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
History is more or less bunk.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
A less clearly developed corollary of academic freedom is the obligation of all those who enjoy it to pursue the line of open and thorough inquiry regardless of personal considerations.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
There are a lot of films which are worth seeing, but this one is the best one to my mind.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
All movements go too far.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
