Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
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There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.
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No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest.
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You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.
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Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.
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You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
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I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember.
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Anthony Davis is cool.
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What does animal welfare have to do with food safety? The animals are the food! They are living in their own excrement, developing horrific sores, stressed out, and, therefore, more vulnerable to illness and disease.
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The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.
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I think Alzheimer's is an important cause.
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Sometimes I just get attention, and I really don't know how it happens.
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Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.
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It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.
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Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.
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You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
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Light cares speak, great ones are speechless.
