Sitat Jørgen: Jeg har ikke hatt Pizza på 24 timer. (Italia 2002)

Sitat Alethe: Vi mennesker liker å ha rent sengetøy..... det er det som skiller oss fra dyrene.... også kan vi snakke da – de to tingene skiller oss fra dyrene
-5 minutter senere når hun blir konfrontert med det hun hadde sagt:
Jeg synes enda det er et godt sitat. Jeg trekker det ikke! tilbake.

And some slightly more famous ones

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Einstein

Å betrakte seg selv som mangelfull - er veien til fullkommenhet.
Lao-Tse

Når du gjør noe godt selv om ingen ser det, da viser du deg virklig som et rettskaffent menneske.
ukjent

Gjør ikke noe vesen av at du har utført en god gjerning, men gå videre til den neste.
Marcus Aurelius

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
Benjamin Franklin

"I'm not a vegiterian because I love animals, but because I hate plants."

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Health nuts are going to feel stupid one day, lying in a hospital, dying of nothing.
-Redd Foxx

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say
something
- Plato

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao-Tze

Poetry

Excerpt from Burnt Norton

What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
                      Burnt Norton, part of the Quartets by T.S Eliot

Stopping by Woods
On a snowy evening

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it's queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there's some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost (1874-1963). Mountain Interval. 1920

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell,
Receive thy new possessor -- one who brings
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less than he
Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice,
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
But wherefore let we then our faithful friends,
Th' associates and co-partners of our loss,
Lie thus astonished on th' oblivious pool,
And call them not to share with us their part
In this unhappy mansion, or once more
With rallied arms to try what may be yet
Regained in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell?"

If I had my life to live over
I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
I'd relax. I would limber up.
I would be sillier than I have been this trip.
I would take fewer things seriously.
I would take more chances.
I would take more trips.
I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers.
I would eat more ice cream and less beans.

I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd
have fewer imaginary ones.

You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly
and sanely hour after hour, day after day.

Oh, I've had my moments and if I had it to do over
again, I'd have more of them. In fact,
I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments.

One after another, instead of living so many
years ahead of each day.

I've been one of those people who never go anywhere
without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat
and a parachute.

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot
earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.

If I had it to do again, I would travel lighter next time.
I would go to more dances.
I would ride more merry-go-rounds.
I would pick more daisies.

By Nadine Stair (age 85)

Tomorrow.....
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

-Macbeth

Fountainhead
Ayn Rand

The philosophy of this book can be interpreted in so many ways, and to so many degrees.

Though I cannot agree with all the conclusions of its philosophy, I find the greatest strength of this book in its description of people in our society.
As soon as I find out who borrowed by "self annotated" version, I will type up some of the best parts that I noted in the margin.

If you are interrested in Ayn Rand, please send me an email, and I would very much like to discuss your thoughts and ideas over email.

Here are some page numbers I jotted down while reading the Atlas Shrugged (the "standard" hardback version), and if I have time one day I will write out some of these pages (though don't expect me to get started on the "This is John Galt" speech for any time soon)

Atlas Shrugged
Kommunistiske idealister > Side 310 i Atlas Shrugged
Livsløgnen > Side 314
The communist > Side 322
Decline of a nation> Side 349
Righteousuly destroying progress> Nederst side 353
Second Raters> Side 358
Money Speech.Franco Danconia 410
Making money America > Nederst Side 412
Rearden deals with his family 459
The women conquerer >489
Women as a mirror to your soul >490
A friends' Curse> Nederst 491
The True John Galt and the moral of the book > Nederst 517
(The Wrong) Moral code of Norway's society > 619
Leaders of the corrupt society > 605
Communism seen from the "inside" > 661
Welfare preachers, looters of the spirit > 884
Overanalyzed love scene. Dagny running from John Galt > 954
The illusion of forgiveness > 970
Mass producing mindless children > 994