Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
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  • Work
  • Kid

• A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

  

  Irving Thalberg
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  • Never
  • Story

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
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  • Trying
  • Mother

• Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'

  

  Ice Cube
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  • End
  • Look

• The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Law
  • Facts
  • Jury

• I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Good
  • Exercise
  • Yoga

• I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

  

  Earl Scruggs
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  • Soul
  • Past

• Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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  • God
  • Men

• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Strong
  • Compassion

• If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fight

• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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  • Great
  • Parents

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
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  • Dad

• Every woman looks good in a flamenco dress.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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  • Woman
  • Dress

• It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
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• Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

  

  Larry Hagman
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  • Writing
  • Alone

• I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Time
  • Good
  • New

• I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
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  • God

• What you look like doesn't matter as much as what you feel like. If you feel you look good, you look good. And I never felt that.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
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  • Feel Like
  • Doesn`t Matter

• The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Age
  • Law

• ..to gather under a new banner.. ..that the poets of yesterday's Futurism change the means of battle with thought, content, and logic.. ..advance Alogism after Futurism.

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • Logic

• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Struggle
  • Individual
  • Tribe

• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
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