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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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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.
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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.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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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.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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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.
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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.
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
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When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
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Love between a man and woman is war.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
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I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.
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I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.
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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.
