Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.Seneca the Younger
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Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation.
Li Bingbing -
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
Pyotr Ouspensky -
You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think everybody feels a great sense of ownership.
Barack Obama -
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
Oscar Wilde -
Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.
Ian Bogost -
No one's ready for a thing, until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.
Napoleon Hill
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The day Christina comes out of her grave, that's the day he should get parole.
Bob Ross -
Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
Jasper Fforde -
The success of the show provided me with amazing opportunities to visit so many wonderful places and meet so many wonderful people. When I was only 13 years old, I had been to 40 places. How many kids get something like that? But at the same time, it was hard for me as an actor to grow in more roles. That really frustrated me for a long time.
Jeremy Miller -
We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.
Burt Lancaster -
As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.
Aristotle -
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
Ethel Waters
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If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.
Dalai Lama -
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
Seneca the Younger