Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

Seneca the Younger

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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.

  

  Ted Olson
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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.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
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• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
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• Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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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.

  

  Dan Savage
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• The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.

  

  Larry Niven
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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.

  

  Learned Hand
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• I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.

  

  Alicia Witt
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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!

  

  Joanna Kerns
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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.

  

  Annalee Newitz
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• By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

  

  Honore de Balzac
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• What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.

  

  Ole Hallesby
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• I hate to say this. ..it's made to order. Then, I disorder it a little bit or, I should say, I reorder it. I wouldn't be so presumptuous to claim that I had the ability to disorder it. I wish I did.

  

  Frank Stella
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• I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?

  

  Gary Saul Morson
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• Fear drives the wretched to prayer

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Prayer
  • Wretched