Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.
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If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you'll note it's not because they tell jokes, it's because of their character. If you develop characters, then you'll know them, and you'll know how they'll speak. The comedy will come out of the character.
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Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world.
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Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.
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A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.
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If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.
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Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
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I've always been clumsy, the one who knocks glasses over.
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Although the word Jihad standing by itself means “struggle,” what Westerners need to focus on when reading the Hadith regarding Mohammed’s Jihad is similar to the focus needed when reading Mein Kampf (My Struggle) by Adolph Hitler.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.
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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
