Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
Quotes to Explore
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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I only understand realism.
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The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
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People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out.
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Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
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The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
