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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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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I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.
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All day long they work so hard till the sun is goin' down. Working on the highways and byways and wearing, wearing a frown. You hear them moanin' their lives away. Then you hear somebody say: 'That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang. That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.'
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.
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They took a survey: Why do men get up in the middle of the night? Ten percent get up to go to the bathroom and 90 percent get up to go home.
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Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
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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.
