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The Selca Handbook 2002 - Information on history and development of the town of Selca on the Dalmatian island of Brac.
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Guides and Directories "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Guides and Directories
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Guides and Directories "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Guides and Directories
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Guides and Directories "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
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Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Guides and Directories If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Guides and Directories When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Guides and Directories
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Guides and Directories "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Guides and Directories
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Guides and Directories He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Guides and Directories
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Guides and Directories May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Guides and Directories
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Guides and Directories Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Guides and Directories
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Guides and Directories Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
