Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

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• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Policy
  • Foreign Policy

• 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
  • Process
  • Act
  • Scripture

• 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
  • World
  • Way
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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
  • Up
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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
  • Work
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  • Look

• I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Never
  • Beach
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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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• It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Hope
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• I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
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  • Guy

• I really wasn't into comic books growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

  

  Karen Mills
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• GQ: 'Who’ll be the first of the Smiths to die?'M: 'Me. I’ll be shot – probably by one of the ex-Smiths.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
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• Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

  

  Brian Keene

• I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Music
  • Hate

• I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Scary

• We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
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  • Truth
  • True

• Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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