Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.
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Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.
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Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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The above proposition is occasionally useful.
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I love to win. But probably equal to that - I love doing what I do.
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The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.
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The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.
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Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.
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How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.
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Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
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The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
