Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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I need instant gratification.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.
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Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.
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Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.
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I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.
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If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.
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As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
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I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
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God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
