Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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Good material is good material.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni Netanyahu, about Hannah Senesh and S. Y. Agnon. I want every child to know how to read the Bible, and know how to make Kiddush.
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People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
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It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.
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If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.
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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? … No other human institution comes close.
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To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq. Thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our troops and the determination of our diplomats, we are hopeful about Iraq’s future. But regime change there took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives, and nearly a trillion dollars. That is not something we can afford to repeat in Libya.
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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
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I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
