Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.
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In such green palaces the first kings reign'd,Slept in their shades, and angels entertain'd;With such old counsellors they did advise,And by frequenting sacred groves grew wise.
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It's an oddity that will be avoided by millions of people, this new 'Pinocchio.' Osama bin Laden could attend a showing in Times Square and be confident of remaining hidden.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
