Marcus Aurelius: A rock is thrown in the air. It...

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Quote: Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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C. S. Lewis
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Quote: I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Walt Disney
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Quote: The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Quote: What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Quote: We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
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Winston Churchill
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Quote: But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Quote: On his cheerful father: He was content to observe without wishing for more.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
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William Shakespeare
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Quote: God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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George Orwell
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Quote: The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Quote: Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.
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Quote: It is not right that anything of any other kind, such as praise from the many, or power, or enjoyment of pleasure, should come into competition with that which is rationally and politically and practically good.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: I don't eat with beautiful women alone.
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Billy Graham
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Quote: Leave my loneliness unbroken
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Quote: If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
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Maya Angelou
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Quote: Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest.
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William Shakespeare
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Quote: Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.
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Maya Angelou
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Quote: We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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Malcolm X
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Quote: Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
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Confucius
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Quote: If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do... If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed... No task is too menial.
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Elon Musk
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Quote: The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: History is not hatred.
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Malcolm X
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Quote: This is the short and the long of it.
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William Shakespeare
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Quote: Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Mark Twain
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Quote: I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Quote: The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Voltaire
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Quote: If they’ve injured you, then they’re the ones who suffer for it. But have they?
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Marcus Aurelius
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