Marcus Aurelius Quotes

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

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• Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.

  

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• If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

  

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• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

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• Take good care of our fragile planet.

  

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• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

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• The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.

  

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• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

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• If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

  

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• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

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• While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

  

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• There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

  

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• 'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.

  

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• I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

  

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• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  

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• In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

  

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• My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

  

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• You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

  

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• Playing mother to grown-up kids does not allure me much. I will not feel comfortable. Also, my fans will not like me with grey hair.

  

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• New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.

  

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• I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.

  

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• Salman will always be that special person in my life because he was able to change my career. I will never ever forget what he has done for me. On the personal front, too, he has advised me as a friend and family, something I couldn't have even asked for.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
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• The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
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  • Power