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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I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
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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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Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.
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Shooting a season can be a grind. It can be seven to eight months of work. Once you stop, it slows down any momentum you had.
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I began to feel that my greatest sense of success would raise the level of masses of people, rather than the individual being accepted by the Establishment. So, this kind of personal thinking, combined with, say, even the little bit more radical thinking - because at one time the pacifist movement was a very radical concept.
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When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.
