Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
Sam Waterston -
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
Gary Hamel -
Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
Hans Vestberg -
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
Fletcher Knebel -
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
Damian Lewis -
Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
Samuel Goldwyn
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I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
Eddie Redmayne -
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Youssou N'Dour -
If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.
Fernando Pessoa -
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Die before you Die. There is no chance after.
C. S. Lewis -
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
Lionel Trilling
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In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable.
Elizabeth Diller -
Ten days after my 'one-step' reconstruction, I was on the beach with my daughter.
Jessica St. Clair -
I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit.
Chili Davis -
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Paul Tillich -
Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it's important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.
Charles Boustany -
If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.
John Cornyn
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You cannot break a horse until they're about 2 years old. You can halter-break them, meaning teach them how to lead and stuff, if you choose to, but you can't really break them until they're 2 because there aren't developed enough, you know what I mean? It would be like a 5-year-old playing football or something, you know?
Brady Jandreau -
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.
Christina Romer -
I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.
Derek Cianfrance -
The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.
Camilla Gibb -
Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.
George Clooney -
Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
Seneca the Younger