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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Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.
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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'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
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Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!
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It's two things: it's totally impersonal and it's totally personal, simultaneously. That's the nature of the mystical experience of life. Everything about life is impersonal, but you have a personal experience. And the bridge between the personal and the impersonal is called prayer.
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While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.
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Reading is not a project of moral improvement, but by broadening our perspective, it can make us less susceptible to the immediate seductions offered by our environment; and in the best-case scenarios, it can enlarge the scope of humane understanding, and of empathy.
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Fear drives the wretched to prayer
