Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

Seneca the Younger

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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
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• 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
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• Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • World
  • Country
  • Remember

• Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
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  • Without
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• If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Truth
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• During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
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• 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
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• 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
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  • Green

• Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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  • Stop

• 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
  • Life
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• 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
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• Die before you Die. There is no chance after.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Die

• Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Culture

• Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

  

  Matthew Goode
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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
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• When I ski, I take both of my legs off and get into a sit ski: a ski with a custom seat that has been molded for me. I use my core and arms to propel myself on snow with help from ski poles.

  

  Oksana Masters
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• 'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

  

  Frank Miller
  • America

• I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Want
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• In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better going around the next corner. It's like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they're going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Time
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• We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

  

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• Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Greatness
  • Familiarity