Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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Pilates is great.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
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All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.
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I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.
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Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.
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It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.
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The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.
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For the record, I am not going anywhere ... I'm very happy in the Cavaliers' uniform and I'm going to be wearing this uniform for a long time, OK?
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.
