Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
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I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.
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Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.
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Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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If you have ever done any security work – and it did not involve the concept of 'network of trust' – it wasn't security work, it was – masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.
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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
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I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.
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When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
