Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
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Justice, I think, is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accomodations concretely.
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Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind.
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The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it. They're missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They've got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.
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I am in love with stories of underdogs.
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I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.
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I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!
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I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.
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I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.
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When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.
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It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
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I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's always been an interest because in martial arts there is a mind/body relationship.
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Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.
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We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.
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The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
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If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.
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You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.
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Fear drives the wretched to prayer
