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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man.


Marcus Aurelius

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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become dominant in business is by making the consumer get used to your product.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to know an ovulating lady is by observing how suddenly gay she has become.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to command everything to suddenly become cheap is by getting used to buying them.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become a leader is by learning to have vision,integrity & control.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to have more money is by learning to spend less than you earn.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to live without almost anybody in life lies within you,just get used to their absence.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to overcome procastination is by learning to do things today.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to overcome dissappointment in life is by learning to attempt one more time.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become a cassanova is by getting used to being embarassed.
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in the morning.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become a reader in life is by first getting used to reading a page per day.
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VI KEELAND I wanted everything from and everything for him, because I wanted every piece of him.
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...
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ERIK PEVERNAGIE For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is no...
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APURVA GAGLANI Be there next time when the happiness will visit you.
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EPHDAN From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
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JERZY KOSINKSI Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
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MARCUS AURELIUS To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution
MARCUS AURELIUS Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday
MARCUS AURELIUS The guest at the lower end of the middle couch, with three hairs on his bald head and his scalp stre...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
MARCUS AURELIUS Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it th...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS The passing minute is every man's equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours
MARCUS AURELIUS The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past
MARCUS AURELIUS You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents
MARCUS AURELIUS Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life.
MARCUS AURELIUS When the crowd of your admirers is shouting, "Bravo! Hear, hear!" it is not you, Pomponius, but your...
MARCUS AURELIUS You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim
MARCUS AURELIUS When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A...
MARCUS AURELIUS It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next mor...
MARCUS AURELIUS Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee
MARCUS AURELIUS Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret abou...
MARCUS AURELIUS You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it
MARCUS AURELIUS Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
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 If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
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...
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