Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'
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No way they could threaten him, not even with Amelie; he'd already given Amelie the finger on the way out of Morganville and he clearly wasn’t worried about her coming after him— or, if so, what would happen when she did.
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The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
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I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.
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Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
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I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.
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He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
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We think of forgiveness as a thing. An incident. A choice. But forgiveness is a process. A long, exhausting process. A series of choices that we have to make over, and over, and over again.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
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Vampires as creatures have evolved over time as different vampire bloodlines have hit different populations of humans. Every once in a while the blood will make something new and mutate into a new species with different powers, abilities, weakness, physical characteristics, and so on. I don't want to give anything away, but there are whole species and branches that date all the way back to pre-modern times.
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I think Elijah was trying to show up a little bit for him, That's another thing you lied to me about in recruiting - you told me there were no tornadoes in Iowa City.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.
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Who has more leisure than a worm?
