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It works on its own terms. It puts you on the spot. It asks of you the fear and courage that it asks of its subject.


Greil Marcus

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MARCUS AURELIUS Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air condi...
STANLEY MARCUS I think it's very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the ...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE People are the core of every business. Businesses are based on relationships, and relationships are ...
MARCUS LEMONIS I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn&...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is go...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the n...
MARCUS AURELIUS The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A stren...
MARCUS BUCKINGHAM These 'lone wolves,' people like to call them, you've got to look at them not like a lon...
MARCUS LUTTRELL Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves w...
MARCUS GARVEY