Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.
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If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.
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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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Of course I prefer to be with someone, but with the right someone.
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Consult duty not events.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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'I used to tell everyone I meant to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.'
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The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.
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The character wasn't polite, so when I shook Grazer's hand and he said, 'Hi, I'm the producer,' I said, 'I'm sorry. You look like you're 12 years old. I like to work with men.'
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The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth
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Time will rust the sharpest sword,Time will consume the strongest cord;That which molders hemp and steel,Mortal arm and nerve must feel.
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You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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20 percent of all recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. There is an obvious truth here that cries out for acknowledgment: if God exists, He is the most prolific abortionist of all.
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I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea.
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Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.
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And I said in underbreath -All our life is mixed with death, -And who knoweth which is best?And I smiled to think God's greatnessFlowed around our incompleteness, - Round our restlessness, His rest.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
