Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
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Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.
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Though not a true cereal but a fruit, buckwheat seeds resemble cereal grains and are often used in a similar way to rice, barley, bulgar or quinoa, usually as a side dish.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
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People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.
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Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time. If hogs receive a lot of hunting pressure, they'll pick up and move, often a mile or two away. So when you have hogs on your property, all your neighbors soon will have hogs on their lands too, whether they want them or not.
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One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.
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Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
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Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).
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You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
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I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.
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I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.
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It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
