Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
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My favorite part of designing bridal is that I will be a part of the most important day in a woman's life. My work needs to make her feel sophisticated, glamorous, sexy, and comfortable.
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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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Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.
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A blocked path also offers guidance.
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There were times when I didn't think I would even be at the European Championship. so to be walking off the field, having scored the winning goal in front of our home fans, just got too much for me.
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Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
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Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
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I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
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Mainly, I have actually been getting involved with an organization called MALDEF. It's a Latino organization. And I would like to get involved with charities that have to do with children or homelessness or education, or all of them together.
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I had worked for a lot of directors whose work I didn't respect, and as I was editing material, I was thinking about how I would have shot the scenes and what I would have done to make the scenes better. After several years of that, I got to the point that I was pretty confident I could sit in the director's chair.
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There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.
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Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.
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Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.
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What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.
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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
