Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
Palaniappan Chidambaram -
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
Pankaj Mishra -
The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
Balthazar Getty -
In life go straight and turn right.
Salman Khan -
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
Walter Jon Williams
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
Gareth Gates -
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner -
There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
Zachary Levi -
Cussing ain't for everybody.
Eric Lynn Wright -
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
Walter Mosley -
The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
Dan Rosensweig
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
F. Sionil Jose -
If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
Vin Scully -
We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
Carles Puigdemont -
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin -
I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.
Irvine Welsh -
I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.
Daniel Baldwin
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The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.
D. Michael Quinn -
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Taylor Caldwell -
The better the acting is, the less visible the director and the less visible the actor.
Marianne Elliott -
No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
Seneca the Younger