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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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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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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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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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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I feel like I've had so many successes on so many levels, even if it is just my relationships with my friends.
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She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart.
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Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.
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I love the stage more than the studio.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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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.
