Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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We were descended from royalty.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
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To US Ambassador H. Monroe Browne, who owned a racehorse called Lacka Reason: 'You are the only ambassador in the world to race a horse named after your country's foreign policy.'
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The sea is the sweat of the earth.
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After I arrived in the United States, I realized that in the army, Israelis learn how to be part of something bigger than themselves.
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Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.
