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Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.


Marcus Brigstocke

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MARCUS AURELIUS When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetra...
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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 Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...
MARCUS AURELIUS Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,bu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each day provides its own gifts
MARCUS AURELIUS Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, wh...
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 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 The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of...
GREIL MARCUS 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