Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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The United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention. It's worth remembering that our presence in the region is nothing new.
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I'm a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.
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Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.
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What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.
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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
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Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.
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To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.
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It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on.
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you can have one of mine," he says. "i'll yank one out right now." no, that won't count. It has to be the lash that naturally falls out. " He gets on his knees and starts looking for my lash.
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Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.
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Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on... there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is very black near the horizon, but toward the upper part is a dull reddish color. The tempest came with great violence, but after a while, the winds ceased all at once and a calm succeeded. This lasted... an hour, more or less, then the gales were turned around, blowing with great fury from the southwest.
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In years past, they've actually had to fight fires in back yards of people's houses ... So, this prescribed burn is meant to try to prevent that from happening again.
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The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.
