Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.
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Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.
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Give a kind word (with a kindly thought behind the word) - you will be kind and receive kind words.
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In the desert of my dreams I saw you there;And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare.But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed.And the pain that's in your truth's deceiving me, has got me scared.Oh why?
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The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.
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Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.
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I don't get to keep the dresses I wear. It is not fair.
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Revolutionary change means the seizure of all that is held by the 1 percent, and the transference of these holdings into the hands of the remaining 99 percent. If the 1 percent are simply replaced by another 1 percent, revolutionary change has not taken place.
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I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
