Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
Seneca the Younger
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
Samantha Power
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
Walter Lang
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
Said Nursi
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
Carl Hiaasen
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
Kate Thompson
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
Nassau William Senior
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
Eddy Cue
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
Salman Khan
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I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
Yancy Butler
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I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.
Taye Diggs
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'
Victoria Justice
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I love onions. I cook with them all the time.
Liam Cunningham
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If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.
Jakob Dylan
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I will confess to you that never for one moment have I had any doubt that I had to do what I did, and when I look back I don't see what more I could have done, having regard to the state of public opinion and the sharpness of party feeling. That is a tremendous solace to me. Few men can have known such a reversal of fortune in so short a time.
Neville Chamberlain
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We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.
Henry David Thoreau
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
Seneca the Younger
