Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
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Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
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There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.
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We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience.
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Kerchak was dead. Withdrawing the knife that had so often rendered him master of far mightier muscles than his own, Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his vanquished enemy, and once again, loud through the forest rang the fierce, wild cry of the conqueror.And thus came the young Lord Greystoke into the kingship of the Apes.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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People are so afraid of hearing "No" that they often don't even try. You have nothing to lose by just asking! A good friend of mine once told me, "Harv, a closed mouth won't get fed." Open your mouth! Say something if negotiations aren't going the way you'd like.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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People are people. All that celebrity tagging doesn't bother me at all.
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Lebanon has not, and will never become a passage for conspiracy against Syria.
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Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
