Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
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If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
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I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
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& he ill, he real, he might gotta deal He pop bottles & he got the right kinda bill
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The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
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Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!
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In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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To achieve a more balanced international system over time, countries with excessive and unsustainable trade surpluses will need to allow their exchange rates to better reflect market fundamentals.
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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We can embrace change by knowing we serve an unchanging God.
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Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.
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My name, far more than it names me, reminds me of my name.
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Men are never attached to you by favours.
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a great deal more than a man with a gun.
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Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
