Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
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(Econometrics is) the unification of economic theory, statistics and mathematics.
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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
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The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.
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The fabric of American Empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of National power ought to flow immediately from that pure original fountain of all legitimate authority.
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If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.
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There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.
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Bejaysus, I wish I didn't have to go back and face what I have to face.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
