Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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We have an alliance that was forged more than a half century ago, and strengthened by shared interests and democratic values. Our people share ties of family, ties of culture, and ties of commerce. Our troops have served to protect Japan’s shores, and our citizens have found opportunity and friendship in Japan’s cities and towns.
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Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.
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Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.
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Statesmen remember things selectively.
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The theory that Divine Providence does not extend to man, and that there is no difference between man and other animals, implies very bad notions about God; it disturbs all social order, removes and destroys all the moral and intellectual virtues of man.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
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Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
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All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
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Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
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Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
