Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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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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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
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I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
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There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.
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Goodness Gracious The Paper! Where the Cash at? Where the Stash at?
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No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth’s many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.
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I don't want to be lumped into any categories.
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My process is learn, decide, and do. I've never seen a problem that couldn't be solved this way.
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It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
