Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
Quotes to Explore
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.
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You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.
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As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.
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Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?
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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.
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Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
