Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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Every few years, the feds and the courts change direction or fail to answer important questions. And every day, the Internet becomes more of a platform for lousy ads, for increasing the power of a few rich companies, and for intrusive tracking. It's too important to leave unprotected.
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I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.
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The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.
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I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
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With workout classes, I always want to know that I can improve with each class I take. But I don't think I'll ever master the art of peddling quickly with little resistance, at least not without feeling like I'm going to fly off the bike.
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To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.
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People who know me know that I'm a rabid fan of the Kansas Jayhawks. My quirky habit is that every Kansas game is on my calendar, and, more often than not, I will plan and schedule flights around them so that I can engage and watch. I have already brainwashed my family to be Jayhawks fans.
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I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.
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I love an iPad game of Scrabble.
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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In the past, war was confined for the most part to men in uniform, but with increased mechanization of armies and the introduction of air forces, there is an increased dependence on the home country, and eight to ten people working at home are now required to keep one man in the fighting line.
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I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
