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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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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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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Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. It exists when people liberate themselves.
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I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.
