Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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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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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
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I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
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Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
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'I don't see much sense in that,' said Rabbit.'No,' said Pooh humbly, 'there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way.'
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As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone.
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Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
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Shastriji had digested the message of the Gita. Some of us have memorised it in full and spout couplets from it at will. But I learnt of what it meant for someone to have actually digested it from Shastriji.
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
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Lajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don’t happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.
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I respectfully, and indeed diffidently, dissent.
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Matter and all else that is in the physical world have been reduced to a shadowy symbolism.
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You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.
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But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
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So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body.
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A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
