Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
Seneca the Younger
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
Jackie Evancho
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
Ouida
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What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
Warren Farrell
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An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism.
Aldo Leopold
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Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
Paul Wellstone
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I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.
Kevin O'Leary
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My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
John Berger
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Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.
Ban Ki-moon
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You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.
Richard Rohr
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
Seneca the Younger