Time is your most valuable resource; there are no refunds or second chances for that which you waste. Retire from social networking, break free from TV, and reduce the arbitrary drains on your time each day.

Choose your friends carefully, you are the average of the 5 people you spend most time with.

Give yourself every opportunity to establish yourself as a key person of influence in your industry. Write a little every day. Write a lot once a week. Try to write a book.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.

Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

U leto 1992. godine bačko selo Trešnjevac je bilo opkoljeno sa 92 tenka – zato što su se tamošnje žene pobunile protiv prisilne mobilizacije svojih muževa.

Moj savet vama tih godina koje pomenu je da izvadite pasoše. Nema nikakve nada da će se nešto promeniti jer mentalitet koji je star stotine godina se ne može promeniti za godinu dana. Ako su roditelji “jeli batine” devedesetih, to nije prvi put da se ružne stvari dešavaju. nisu li ratni veterani iz WW 1 prosili ispred Starog dvora dok su ratni liferanti sedeli u foteljama a Milunka Savic heroj rata radila kao baba sera. Ne vidim nikakvu nadu. Možete menjati sistem, vlast, ali sve će da odtane isto…zakon jačeg, korupcija, sila, laž, prevara, bezbožništvo…spremajmo se “na put kući u tudjinu” što reče Balašević

A few factors emerged as strongly protective [agains teen substance abuse]: participation in organised activities – especially sport – three or four times a week, total time spent with parents during the week, feeling cared about at school, and not being outdoors in the late evenings.

The Internet was awesome until everyone showed up.

Britain has changed since 1998.

Back then, it only took workers about three years to save enough money for a down-payment on a house. Now it takes 20 years.

'I love animals!' Says a child.

'Be a vet.' Says the guidance adviser.

'Kill my dog.' Says the customer.

At a previous employer we had a policy that all passwords started with '/' because of the sheer number of times someone typed the root password into a public IRC channel.

It could be that financial success breeds bad health habits.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

London voted against Brexit.

NYC, LA, SF, etc against Trump.

Istanbul, Ankara against Erdogan.

All very deeply divided societies.

Sayre's law: In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.

Ovde je tradicija sprdnja od koje se prave svečane palačinke.

In 532, the Byzantines and Persians signed what they called The Perpetual Peace, so named because it was expected to last forever. It lasted eight years. After the ensuing war, the Byzantines and Persians, now less optimistic, named their new treaty The Fifty Year Peace. It lasted ten years.