Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Only men of character are trusted.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
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Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.
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What annoys me about it is that your fate is always in somebody else's hands. It's always up to somebody else to decide whether or not they want you in their show and so the majority of actors have to play out a waiting game. The constant fear is that it could all end tomorrow.
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Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.
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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
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I'm drawn to punk. I'm drawn to samba a bit. I don't think there's a type of music I'm not drawn to. Lykke Li I really like. Holy Sons I still can't get enough of.
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Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
