Marcus Aurelius Quotes
γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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I love art, but not in a cliched, luvvie way.
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Although I eat healthily, I do enjoy a greasy fry-up, but usually only once a year. I've also got a big Kit-Kat addiction and buy them in bulk.
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Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.
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I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.
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Honest men make unconvincing liars,' I lied convincingly.
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γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν.
