Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.
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I am here convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
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Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
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For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
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A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.
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The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.
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Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.
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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.
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The dominating thoughts of my mind... will transform themselves into physical reality.
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I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.
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During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.
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Norms are valid only for normal situations.
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In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
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Those sound like the three best answers I've ever heard on this show even though it's the first ever of this show!
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Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'
