Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
Barry Jenkins
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
Carli Lloyd
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In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.
Carl Honore
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He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.
Padma Lakshmi
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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
Rita Mae Brown
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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
William McKinley
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I just can't wake from these scary dreams.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.
Mother Teresa
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
Seneca the Younger
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Honour to Agamemnon is a thing. That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.
Christopher Logue
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In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school.
Alexandra Robbins
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Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.
Rachel Caine
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I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.
Stefan Edberg
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Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd,
Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
The speed that spins the future and the past:
And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
Awful eternity shall reign alone.
Petrarch
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
Seneca the Younger
