Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.
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I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.
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Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.
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If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.
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I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.
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Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
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If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.
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We do know that once again innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.
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I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.
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So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need most.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.
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I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.
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Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
