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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I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.
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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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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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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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Sickened by vermin that feed, in the shade of the good, on envy, greed, and suspicion, by the snake-like hissing of venomous tongues that fear hate and revile the mystery of free thought and upright heart The spirit would cast aside all deceit, open his heart to the spirit he trusts, and unite with him freely as one.
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I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.
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I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.
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The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.
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The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
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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.
