Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed - the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange - to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
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News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.
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The intellectual world of my time alienated me intellectually. It was a Babel of false principles and blind cravings, a zoological garden of the mind, and I had no desire to be one of the beasts. —George Santayana
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It takes a special kind of family to bathe together in their 40s.
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Without will, no conflict: no tragedy among the abulic. Yet the failure of will can be experienced more painfully than a tragic destiny.
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The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
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He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
