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Marcus Aurelius

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EDDIE ROYAL If you called him, you could depend on him to show up. When he showed up, you could depend on him do...
LARRY PEARL How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
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HELMUT SCHMIDT If T.O. comes to the left, I'll be on him. You always want to go against the best.
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YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
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HARRY YOU My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra an...
KAREN DUFFY If you really love your son, then make him leave home.
VIKRANT PARSAI If they don't pay him, absolutely (he'd like to leave). I think he believes they don't really want h...
TONY AGNONE There was nothing expressed to him that requires him to leave at that time.
DOUG ADAMS You never want to see anybody leave. But that's college basketball. The most important thing is that...
BILL HERRION Finally Marcus stepped forward. "If you insist on going through me to get him, it's your call. But I...
DAN WELLS Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Either way, I couldn’t let him leave me, and if I had to kneel to make him stay, I would.
MEREDITH WILD If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
VERONICA ROTH If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if wit...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Don't you leave him! they said to me. Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Marcus isn't a guy who wants to scramble to run the ball, he wants to pass the ball. This guy is all...
BUSTER DAVIS Why don't you leave him? You don't understand.
KARLA HOMOLKA If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in...
ANTHONY MANN I saw him bobble the ball and we had a great runner. Marcus is one of our fastest runners. I never h...
BRIAN JOROS If you want to leave, leave; if not, GET OUT!
ALAN CHADWICK "If you want to leave, leave; if not, GET OUT!"
ALAN CHADWICK Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” �...
FRANCINE JAY Even if you determine it's in your best interest to leave, you still have to perform during that per...
HARRY E. CHAMBERS Marcus was remarkable. Great players make plays for others and he made everyone around him better to...
BRANDON HEATH When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
PROVERB When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart
RUSSIAN PROVERB If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.
WARREN BUFFETT The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS The way people behave. They refuse to admire their contemporaries, the people whose lives they share...
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MALCOLM WILSON If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
DENIS DIDEROT Whatever you do, don't break my brother's heart. You are his world. And if you leave it, it will des...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.
IYANLA VANZANT If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
GEORGE HERBERT It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN if you are struggling and compromising being with your love , better leave him and stay alone..
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DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
 DON'T SET...
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ERIC DEVENDORF If you want to make God laugh, pray to him for wealth.
VIKRANT PARSAI I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual l...
JOHN OWEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
JANE AUSTEN If you want to give the infinite anything,give man & then you have given him.
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AMANDA GRACE If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
WOODY ALLEN The wind is blowing. Don’t bend if you want to please him.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA When you've got the best offensive lineman in the league you want to see him in uniform,
TYOKA JACKSON If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.
BLAKE EDWARDS If the storm underestimates your power, nothing happens to him; but if you underestimate the power o...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Flirt with him if you want, Honor, but you're mine.
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GEORGE KARL If you are sorry, you will leave him. Jack will never be yours, Schuyler. Not like I am yours."
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ If you are going to run for partisan office, particularly if it is full time, at some point you have...
ERIC HERZIK Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag.
ALEX GIBNEY He must become crazy like you, he must be a fool, he must allow you to laugh at him. Then you will n...
OSHO If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
LEWIS E. LAWES If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
JOE E. LEWIS It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.
ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
JIM ELLIOT God always gives his best to those who leave the choice with him
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CHARLES BEACHAM He didn't want to fight, but every once in awhile, sort of like the fast gun, someone's gonna want t...
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CYNDI TEFFT If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
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BRIGID KEMMERER You're done if you leave it over the middle on him. He doesn't get cheated on his swing.
ERIC LINDSTROM The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS You rock him to a drowsy state, doesn't take long. He's tired, put him in crib we leave the room.
NICKI PERCHIK Marcus has never beaten his brother before. He beat him today.
MATT PAXTON If you feed a child, you strengthen him for a day; if you educate him, you strengthen him for a life...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worshi...
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C.S. LEWIS If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.
CHINESE PROVERB I thought, well, if anybody has the dog, I'd want you to have him.
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MARCUS AURELIUS How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
MARCUS AURELIUS No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing in nature is evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
MARCUS AURELIUS If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
MARCUS AURELIUS Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
MARCUS AURELIUS The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
MARCUS AURELIUS To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
MARCUS AURELIUS The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
MARCUS AURELIUS Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
MARCUS AURELIUS