Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
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We should have more invention.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
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The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
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You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.
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All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.
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I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.
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In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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Circumstances should never alter principles!
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Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
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There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.
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We are rarely conscious of all these things that are killing our faith because they become so enshrined in our belief system. And when we enter into an unexpected process of shedding off those things that we have grown comfortable with... Well, that moment feels like a crisis. It feels like our faith is falling apart. It feels like everything has gone wrong. But I'm convinced it's not a crisis at all, but the birth of a true faith.
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Today, somewhere in America, there's a kid who's got a laptop and a guitar and a couple of his friends he's putting together to play drums and bass, who's gonna change the way we say things, the way that we dress, the way we view things, the music we hear, everything.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
