Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!
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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
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I have had struggles with some eating disorders, just eating issues.
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Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.
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On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.
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I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
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'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.
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Chelsea belongs in the Champions League, and we must stay there.
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I decided I should go after the roles I like, that I am inspired by, and then, if I am having a good time, chances are that people will like watching you.
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I have expressed a very strong view that no health minister on their own can turn the health service around.
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We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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Marx... Lenin... Mao Tse-Tung... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.
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My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.
