Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
Quotes to Explore
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
Rachel Gibson
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
Natalie Dormer
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
Venus Williams
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
Mac Davis
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
Pam Ferris
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. Morgan
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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
Owen Hart
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
M.I.A.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
Ralph Merkle
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
Imran Amed
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I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Carl Forti
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
Ian Lustick
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I participate in the SNAP Challenge to raise awareness about the millions of people in our communities who struggle with hunger on a daily basis despite living in the most prosperous nation ever known.
Ted Deutch
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I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
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As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.
David Puttnam
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I don't mourn the old, romantic, dirty Times Square, although it was more unique.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.
Barbara Marciniak
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Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Irving Fisher
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This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
Seneca the Younger