Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Ἔσω βλέπε· μηδενὸς πράγματος μήτε ἡ ἰδία ποιότης μήτε ἡ ἀξία παρατρεχέτω σε.

Marcus Aurelius

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• This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

  

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• I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Believe
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• I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

  

  Oliver Stone
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• The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
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• Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• Did you really think I would sell you out?

  

  Karl Malone
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• Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
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• Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

  

  Barack Obama
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• My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Imagine
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• I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.

  

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• I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Think
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• On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network.

  

  Ze Frank
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• I never wanted to be a movie star.

  

  Radha Mitchell
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• I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

  

  Ed Speleers
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• I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

  

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• I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

  

  George Eliot
  • Future
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• I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
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• Critics will tell you the 'meet cute' is a tired old writing cliche, but the thing is, cliche's work - because they ring true with the reader.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • Work
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• Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

  

  George Santayana
  • Knowledge
  • Beginning
  • Happiness

• The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer to contemporary idiom, especially when those cadences have been masterfully twisted to satirical ends.

  

  Geoffrey Dutton
  • Book
  • Individual
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• Ἔσω βλέπε· μηδενὸς πράγματος μήτε ἡ ἰδία ποιότης μήτε ἡ ἀξία παρατρεχέτω σε.

  

  Marcus Aurelius