Marcus Aurelius Quotes
To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.
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There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.
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We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.
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A true conservative - who is, above all, an anti-ideologue - will often be attacked for alleged inconsistency, for changing positions, for promising change but not a radical break with the past, for pursuing two objectives - like liberty and authority, or change and continuity - that seem to all ideologues as completely contradictory.
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You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.
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I'm not in favour of the army, I'm in favour of replacing it with armed workers' brigades to defend the factories.
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Who killed John Keats?'I,' says the Quarterly,So savage and Tartarly;''Twas one of my feats.'
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To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
