Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
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Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
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À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.
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Then spoke the thunder DA Datta: what have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.
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The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
