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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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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Tenure actually delivers a doubly whammy to the organizations that endure this outmoded arrangement. The second-rate people who thrive in a tenured environment like nothing more than to surround themselves with more mediocrity and drive out those who might excel and reveal the shortcomings of the entrenched.
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I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it.
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The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.
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To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
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It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the Dark' in completely new genres. As an artist and writer, it's the highest compliment we can be paid.
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Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
