Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

Seneca the Younger

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• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

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• We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
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• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

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• The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
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• Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Think
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• The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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• Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.

  

  Raf Simons
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• My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

  

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• Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

  

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• As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Country
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• We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
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• The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
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• I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Life
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• The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • House
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• To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
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• If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Up
  • Mind
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• The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

  

  Virgil Goode
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• Solitude is independence.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Solitude
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• Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Defence
  • Obscurity
  • Mind Of Man

• A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Independence
  • Stomach