Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
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Each person can make their difference.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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If your environment is not to your liking, change it!
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The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.
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It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
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I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.
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To women silence gives their proper grace.
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But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
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A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
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The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
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I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed to contribute to not only to my, my, my fans that I had begun to gather but to myself most of all, most importantly for me.
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Self-denial is the best riches.
