Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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He often spoke aloud to himself now, or hummed, without ever noticing it, as if ignoring an old companion who always said the same things.
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There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.
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I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet.
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And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for it; but above all he must abstain from taking the property of others, for men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.
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Everyone is using the Internet for almost everything - trailers, ads, movies, and short films. This is the only thing that will reach everybody in the world.
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I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal.
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Always sing below your potential.
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There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
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I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They’re things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate.
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I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there... I told the stewardess liquor for three... Who are the other two?...Oh, there are no other two...
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It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.
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My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
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I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.
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No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent.
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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.
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Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.
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Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.
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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
