Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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I was a tomboy.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I’ve decided that I’d like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today. If you’re wondering why … you haven’t been paying attention.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change once spirit has infused our consciousness. As we come to look at an experience differently, in time in begins to transform.
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Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.
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I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
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I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
