Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.
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A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.
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Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
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I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.
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Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.
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The word 'star' is misused. A good film will never fail. And if you have become an actor to become a star, then your reason of being in this profession is wrong. It amounts to abusing the art.
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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
