Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
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If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.
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Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
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I believe whoever has the most energy wins. You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.
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In every country I visit, I am proud to present Jasmine and what we are doing here. I am in no doubt that we will soon be called upon to teach others the model we have been developing for the past decade, for the promotion of women-owned businesses.
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A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
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I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
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I raised my arms as if in prayer and heard the mutter of response behind me. Then I scattered the dried grains, red and brown and black, and studied the patterns they formed on the stone ledge before Sibbos. This is not such a mystic thing. You see what it is sensible to see, or else you interpret what you see so that the meaning comes out as you want it.
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Ian Smith.
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Conservatism: Our revolutionary message … is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation.
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The Presence all thy fancies supersedes, All that is done which thou wouldst seek in deeds, The wealth obliterates all seeming needs.
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The survivors lay quietly in that cratered void and watched the whitehot stars go rifling down the dark. Or slept with their alien hearts beating in the sand like pilgrims exhausted upon the face of the planet Anareta, clutched to a namelessness wheeling in the night.
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Some say once gone you're gone foreverAnd some say you're going to come back.Some say you rest in the arms of the SaviourIf in sinful ways you lack.Some say that they're coming back in a garden,Bunch of carrots and little sweet peas.I think I'll just let the mystery be.
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The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
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One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.
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Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference.
