Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.
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I have been fighting the best. I am just 26 and have fought in the biggest arenas.
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There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
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All I know is don't ever get into a feud with Taylor Swift. She has, like, 50 million people that will die for her. You can't step into that arena.
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These beautiful plans, we have to forget.
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Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
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I think the biggest part of this was the fact that we were coming into an arena where the guys were 0-7.
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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.
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Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
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From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.
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Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.
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There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.
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I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'
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The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.
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I do things very impulsively; I don't really like to plan things at all. If I am passionate about something then I will do it.
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I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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Don't 'just do it.' First, plan it, then do it.
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I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.
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Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.
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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.
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The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
