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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I hear they like to chop block. I'm not a big fan of it, but you've got to be prepared and ready for it.
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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
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Add to this occasional journeys, ministers’ meetings, etc., and you will rather wonder that I have any time, than that I have so little. I am not my own, nor would I choose for myself. Let God employ me where he thinks fit, and give me patience and discretion to fill up my station to his honour and glory.
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My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.
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God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
