Marcus Aurelius Quotes
The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.
Quotes to Explore
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
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If we understand the worm, we understand life.
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Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
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In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?
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If I move, if I speak, if I so much as blink, I'm going to lose this battle.
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The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.
