Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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If you are ready to put a product or service on the market, look at that product or service and see how you can test it inexpensively. Keep in mind, you'll only need one; you don't need 1,000 to get the answer.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
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There have been many great performers, but only four great stylists-Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.
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It's not hard to cut taxes.
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I don't want to be too power-hungry.
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I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.
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But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It's helped so many people.
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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Almost through force of habit, she found her lips saying the words she had so often said before: “Let’s not spoil it . . . You will write to me, my dear, my dear . . .” His face was impassive. “I never write,” he said.
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I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride.
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The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.
