Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
Seneca the Younger
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
Walter Salles
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
Yair Lapid
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Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
Randy Pausch
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Die Klasse, welche die herrschende materielle Macht der Gesellschaft ist, ist zugleich ihre herrschende geistige Macht. Die Klasse, die die Mittel zur materiellen Produktion zu ihrer Verfügung hat, disponiert damit zugleich über die Mittel zur geistigen Produktion.
Karl Marx
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I'd love to stay in baseball, but I won't beg. I'd love to work with young umpires. I think I could teach them, help them develop. I can spot flaws, help them get over the hump. You're striving for perfection every game, yet you never achieve it. If baseball wants me, I'm available.
Doug Harvey
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
Jack Kilby
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I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want to involve anybody else in my actions if it could imperil them.
Deborah Moggach
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
Rachel McAdams
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
Seneca the Younger
