Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
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Great men marry great women.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
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I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
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As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.
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Men don't hear women.
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
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I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.
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Men aren't able to retire and are going bankrupt making alimony payments.
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Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
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I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of life here. This is a movie from the heart, and it's a little different from the normal movies you'll see.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously.
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The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.
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Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
