Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
Quotes to Explore
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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I have matured a lot.
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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Everyone truly does have God given gifts... Find them and use them, and don't let anyone else tell you that you are less than who you are.
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
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One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.
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What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.
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Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.
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Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.
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What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
