Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

Seneca the Younger

• Serious
• Air
• Voice
• Ears
• Concerts
• Flattery
• Exclusion

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• I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

  

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  • Exist

• Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

  

  Fay Weldon
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• I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.

  

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• I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.

  

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• I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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  • Sport
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• This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

  

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• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

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• People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

  

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• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
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  • Star
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• I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

  

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• Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
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  • Competition
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• One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Work
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  • Teach

• You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.

  

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  • You
  • Bring
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• The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
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• The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

  

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  • Beautiful
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• You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

  

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• Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.

  

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• All my life, I've been a man of peace, working for peace, striving for peace, negotiating for peace. I've been a League of Nations man and a United Nations man and I'm still the same man with the same convictions, the same devotion to peace. I couldn't be other even if I wished. But I'm utterly convinced that the action we have taken is right.

  

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• I always feel safe with a woman photographer. I feel that no matter how they interpret something, they understand all sides of it because they are women, and women are complex creatures.

  

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• The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge.

  

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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• There is so little one can be certain of these days,” he begins, voice wobbly. “But finding a hand to hold while we walk this path.

  

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  • Voice
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• I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It's very powerful.

  

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  • Powerful

• The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Serious
  • Air
  • Voice