"But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles."

-- Marcus Aurelius

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“Only a genius can play a fool.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“They [Muslims] are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so... then racist I must be - and happy and proud, to be so.”

Source : The Daily Express, February 25, 1991.
“Thereâ€™s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.”
“[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.”
“I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.”
“I think of myself as a really happy person.”
“Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.
“It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life.”

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