Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
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No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
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Pussycat, pussycat,You're so thrilling and I'm so willingto care for you.So go and make up you big little pussy cat eyes.
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Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.
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The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
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I don't like to set myself goals because then you might fail to reach them. I just go with the flow.
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I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.
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My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
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I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
