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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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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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train it and evaluate it on past data.
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The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
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The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.
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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.
