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| 7108519 | We were breathing sooty air. The soot was composed of incinerated glass and steel but also, we knew, incinerated human flesh. When the local TV news announced that rescue workers sorting through the rubble in search of survivors were in need of toothpaste, half my block, having heard that there was finally something we could actually do besides worry and grieve, had already cleaned out the most popular brands at the corner deli by the time .. | well-worded | Sarah Vowell | |
| 19fbfd4 | Let us thank God for having given us such ancestors; and let each successive generation thank Him, not less fervently, for being one step further from them in the march of ages. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 3f2cd3c | Age brought wisdom, but it also brought a genuine gratitude for the happiness of sharing life with someone as much liked as loved. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| a6fae4b | In reality, though, most of the time we don't choose the best option--we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing. | psychology usability web-design | Steve Krug | |
| 447a523 | The problem is there are no simple "right" answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need--carefully thought out, well executed, and tested." | designer user-testing web-design | Steve Krug | |
| d02a7f3 | Dear Mr. Weston, Hello again. We were beginning to wonder what had happened to you. I guess things have been pretty quiet since the Salvation Army tried to take over the world. We are sorry, but after much deliberation we have elected not to assign any men to Protect Trillium Air Base. We feel that the Forces can protect themselves, and if they can't, who is going to protect the country? Also, thank you for sending us that shard of broke.. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 8704adb | All at once, Darren's voice called, "I've got it! It's here!" | Gordon Korman | ||
| 1bedcf4 | The test! It was as if they believed the test was an infallible superbeing that had descended to earth on a great space ark surrounded by thunderbolts of perfection. | Gordon Korman | ||
| e14da59 | Why? There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That's why I needed ancestry.com. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 976d60f | Welcome to the world of Cahills. If it isn't impossible, it isn't worth doing. | Gordon Korman | ||
| ef0647d | Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have to keep chipping away. | Deborah M. Gordon | ||
| df9ae36 | Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest. | greek-tragedy mortality | Gilbert Murray | |
| 5a3b372 | Nece biti manje dosadno ako napisem da je dosadno i velika smisla ne vidim u ovom, ali oko mene je tako pusto i prazno da je nuzno da nacinim bezutjesnu konstataciju, samo konstataciju:da sam bio i zivio i da mi je bilo neizmjerno dosadno. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| f398def | Nije vazno koliko covek vremena ustedi, nego sta s tim ustedenim vremenom radi; ako ga na zlo upotrebi, onda bi bolje bilo da ga nema. Nije glavno pitanje da li covek brzo ide, nego kud ide i po kakvom poslu. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 1cc2095 | Rekao je da nije niko i nista; putnik na zemlji, prolaznik u ovom prolaznom vremenu, senka na suncu... | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 3ebbf97 | Jer jedino tako, ziveci svaki trenutak odvojeno i ne gledajuci ni napred ni natrag, moze se ovakav zivot podneti i ziv covek sacuvati za bolje dane. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 000a8c7 | Mozda bi se moglo reci da svak voli putovanje, ili bar misao o njemu, kao svoj drugi, lepsi, zivot. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 990d06c | Nista nije pomagalo. Ostajala je postelja, koja kao grob pokriva zaboravom i leci svaku muku, iako manje savrseno. Ah, kad bi leci bilo isto sto i zaspati, zivot ne bi bio ovo sto jeste: smrt bez mira i izvesnosti. Dalji i nedostizniji od najveceg blaga i najsmelijeg svetskog rekorda, san je lezao negde u daljini, okean sna, a ja sam ginuo za jednom jedinom kapi njegovom. Zaspati, spavati snom bez snova, mrtvim snom, u kom nema ni kofera, n.. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 61c1aba | Od svega sto ima i jeste,ja sam hteo da napravim sredstvo kojim bih savladao i osvojio svet, a sada je taj svet od mene nacinio svoje sredstvo. | life-lessons | Ivo Andrić | |
| 9ce8c63 | For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 89595db | The wish to acquire is no doubt a natural and common sentiment, and when men attempt things within their power, they will always be praised rather than blamed. But when they persist in attempts that are beyond their power, mishaps and blame ensue. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 1674cde | But in republics there is more vitality, more hatred, and more desire for revenge. The memory of former freedom simply will not leave the people in peace. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 71f8d42 | Whence we may draw the general axiom, which never or rarely errs, that he who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 3181f2b | One ought perhaps not to count Moses, as he was a mere executor of the will of God; he must nevertheless be admired, if only for the grace that made him worthy of speaking to God. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 6eb8476 | It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather. | machiavelli machiavellian the-prince weather | Niccolò Machiavelli | |
| 1186c00 | It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 587d321 | Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be--and are ruined. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| b88967d | It is truly natural and ordinary thing to desire gain; and when those who can succeed attempt it, they will always be praised and not blamed. But if they cannot succeed, yet try anyway, they are guilty of error and are blameworthy. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 75011cd | What remains to be done must be done by you; since in order not to deprive us of our free will and such share of glory as belongs to us, God will not do everything himself. | exultation free-will god | Niccolò Machiavelli | |
| b498a3a | Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 09fb5e0 | The Prince who establishes himself in a Province whose laws and language differ from those of his own people, ought also to make himself the head and protector of his feebler neighbours, and endeavour to weaken the stronger, and must see that by no accident shall any other stranger as powerful as himself find an entrance there. For it will always happen that some such person will be called in by those of the Province who are discontented ei.. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| ef60468 | Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which relies on foreign arms brought to yield obedience to a single citizen. Rome and Sparta remained for ages armed and free. The Swiss are at once the best armed and the freest people in the world. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 3b1aaf3 | Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| bb32d41 | Men injure either from fear or hatred. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 30597be | men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against him who rules, wherein they are deceived because they afterward find by experience they have gone from bad to worse. | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| ad8514d | he who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others; | Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| 541c31c | lkn n`rf md~ lthn ldhy ynlh l'myr ldhy yHfZ `hdh wyHy Hy@ mstqym@ dwn mkr. lkn tjrb `Srn hdh tdl `l~ 'n 'wly'k l'mr ldhyn Hqqw '`mlan `Zym@ hm mn lm ySn l`hd l qlylan. whm mn stT` 'n yw'thr `l~ l`ql bm lh mn mkr. km stT`w ltGlb `l~ mn j`lw l'mny@ hdyan lhm | نيكولا ميكيافيلي Niccolò Machiavelli | ||
| d134899 | Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place where people work and struggle, live and die, as they do the world over. | Alan Brennert | ||
| be14682 | no debes seguir anclada al pasado y asustada por el futuro. Tienes una sola vida, pero si la vives bien, es suficiente. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 7262b38 | qbr mbhr!, nh lshy lwHyd ldhy ybq~, fb`d my'@ sn@ sytmkn zy'rw lmqbr@ mn l`jb bqbry w sytkhylwn 'nny `sht Hy@ Tyb@ | Isabel Allende | ||
| 45a18e9 | m yuns~ ykwn km lw 'nh lm yHdth qT. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 10e71a2 | Lloro creyendo que lloraba por el nino muerto y por Alma, pero lo hacia por si mismo, por su vida mesurada y convencional, por el peso de las responsabilidades que nunca podria sacudirse de encima, por la soledad que lo agobiaba desde que nacio, por el amor que anoraba y nunca tendria, por los naipes enganosos que le habian tocado y por todas las malditas tretas de su destino. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 93d0380 | Childhood is a naturally unhappy period of our existence, Lillian. It was Walt Disney who invented the notion that it has to be happy, simply to make money. | Isabel Allende | ||
| b65d913 | Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue. | Isabel Allende |