Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.

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• I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.

  

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• I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

  

  Kaskade
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• As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

  

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• I like to discover new things.

  

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• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

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• I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

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• We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

  

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• I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  

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• I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

  

  Patrick Rafter
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• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
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• We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

  

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• We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

  

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• If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

  

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• You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.

  

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• I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.

  

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• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
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• Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

  

  Jane McGonigal
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• I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world.

  

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• I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.

  

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• If you see me in the street - look away, 'cause I don't want to ever catch you looking at me, Mr Clean.'Cause I hate you and your wife, and if I get the chance I'll fuck up your life.

  

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• Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

  

  William Blum
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• Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life