Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I take my work seriously.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
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Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.
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I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
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I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
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I'm not good with bullies and zealots.
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Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
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It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.
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Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.
