Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
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Books are humanity in print.
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
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On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.
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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime Israel, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast.
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The central idea of the philosophy of behaviorism, that behavior and the mind have an entirely materialist basis subject to experimental analysis, is fundamentally sound.
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A beautiful 35-year old ain't as good-looking as an ugly 19-year old.
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Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
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There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
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War is what happens when language fails.
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Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.
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I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.
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After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.
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Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy... This is the only natural economy, the only kind that makes sense, the only one that can lead to prosperity, because it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
