Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
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There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
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The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Fashion for a long time was very elitist and difficult to get access to. The access I can now provide to my readers live from fashion shows with my iPhone was never, ever possible before.
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The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
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When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook
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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth
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I've been really tryin, babyTryin to hold back these feelings for so longAnd if you feel, like I feel babyCome on, oh come on,Let's get it on.
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ὅπου γὰρ ἰσχὺς συζυγοῦσι καὶ δίκηποία ξυνωρὶς τῆσδε καρτερωτέρα
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I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.
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He’s not really a religious man, but he knows which side his bread’s buttered on. The churches pay his salary, so he doesn’t want anyone rocking the boat with unorthodox rumours.
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I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.
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He's got no nerves. I don't know how he does it.
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I like a well-rounded life. All of this work is kind of useless if you don't have something good to come home to.
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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
