Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
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Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.
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It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.
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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
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There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
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Digest the opinion and determine our future course of conduct.
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I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny.
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A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
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He who writes badly thinks badly
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It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.
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What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
