Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.
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Songwriters tell the truth.
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As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
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To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.
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The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
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The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
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The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.
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The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.
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Truth is the trial of itself And needs no other touch, And purer than the purest gold, Refine it ne'er so much.
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Most unsuccessful people let their fears and doubts have the final say in how they live their lives.
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I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.
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We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.
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I am certain that our Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart will increasingly be an international meeting place open to scientists of all countries.
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Simple is the language of truth.
