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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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
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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'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
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I think Alzheimer's is an important cause.
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Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.
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I have a hard time narrowing things down to ten or 12 songs. If I walk off stage in anything less than two hours, it just feels strange. It feels early.
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In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.
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To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to let go and flow into a new structure when the right time has come.
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Light cares speak, great ones are speechless.
