Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
Cameron van der Burgh
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
Bear Grylls
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.
Gail Devers
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Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures.
Kate Moss
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. Forster
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I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
Larry Flynt
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I went through a low phase for two years when I had a string of flops. At that time, I even felt that I was in the wrong profession and that I should leave acting. But thankfully, I utilised that time to introspect and went on a self-exploration trip. I did theatre in between, and it helped grow the fire within me.
Randeep Hooda
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I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.
Kate Reardon
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I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.
Vanilla Ice
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It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.
Barbara Hepworth
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One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.
Odell Shepard
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Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.
William Shakespeare
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Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The philosopher must teach these pupils French students that it is far less essential to understand nature than to enjoy and respect its laws; that these laws are both wise and simple; that they are written in all human hearts, and that one need merely question a heart in order to appreciate its impulses.
Marquis de Sade
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And yet she had never felt so bereft, as if her presence in other lives were entirely illusory, as if she herself were a kind of facsimile, pleasant but inauthentic. Before she got too old she must wrest some part of her life for herself, or she would fade, vanish, before anyone noticed her disappearance
Anita Brookner
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Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
Seneca the Younger
