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.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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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.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
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I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
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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.
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God is not just, God is not kind, God is not merciful, and understanding that is essential to true devotion.
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I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.
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Paradoxically, I think working at an Internet magazine intensifies the attraction of beautiful printed objects.
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When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about kidnapping me.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
