Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
David Harvey
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And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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We ended up with some pretty good quality videos for next to nothing. We just thought it would be interesting to put WAV files on a DVD and let people burn CDs if they want. CDs are so expensive. I can't remember the last time I bought a new CD.
Sam Brown
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Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?
Rachel Caine
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When Western Europe needed defense, along with the United States, it looked to Turkey for that defense on its eastern flank against the then-Soviet Union, ... No issues were then raised that it had an Islamic majority.
Jack Straw
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A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.
Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
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Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.
Xaviera Hollander
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In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
Pablo Casals
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No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future
Umar
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You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out!
T. D. Jakes
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All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?
Liane Moriarty
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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.
Earl Blaik
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People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
Tahereh Mafi
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Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.
Bill Vaughan
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When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.
Hannah Arendt
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Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should answer the question..... The master settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky. By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.
Lao Tzu
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Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
Stanley Kubrick
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Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
Seneca the Younger