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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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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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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In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
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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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True friends stab you in the front.
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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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Focus on what you want to do. Don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. Get your mind towards what you want to do and you'll achieve it. It makes it fun. You gotta take risks at times. Risks pay off.
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Maybe this will be the summer when there is nothing but laughter. Maybe this will be the summer.
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I sleep with castor oil and clingfilm wrapped around my stomach. It's amazingly slimming because it detoxes your system. I also regularly cleanse my liver.
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He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
