Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I would have never gotten to college if it hadn't been for getting up at 4 A.M. and milking them Holsteins.
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I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
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When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.
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I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.
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I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.
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We're always writing music no matter what. And we're not always acting - we have months off. But we never take a break from songwriting.
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And at times I'm tempted to think that our way and the Kirk's way is not God's way, for we're apt to treat the natural man as altogether corrupt, and put him under over-strict pains and penalties, whereas there's matter in him that might be shaped to the purposes of grace. If there's original sin, there's likewise original innocemce.
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That just proves I wasn't in the wrong, and that's what this is all about. Yeah, you try to represent the game the right way, but then being told you're in the wrong for reacting to something you didn't start, that's kind of disturbing. That just makes me feel like it's a hypocritical society.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
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Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.
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As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.
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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
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My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
