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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I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal.
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there is no doubt that coming generations will think that our form of world trade and distribution of the world's benefits were just as inconceivable and inhuman.
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Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.
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Self-denial is the best riches.
