Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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Toleration is the best religion.
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If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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My father is an anchor and my brother is as well.
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As she stumbled forward she cried out in her mind, which was as dark, as shaken as the subterranean vault, 'Forgive me. O my Masters, O unnamed ones, most ancient ones, forgive me, forgive me!'There was no answer. There had never been an answer.
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The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. ... To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
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Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
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It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on 'civil liberties and human rights' conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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In the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee that there will not be an Edward Snowden or another Chelsea Manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings with all their idiosyncrasies.
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Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.
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Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.
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I'm not afraid of anything other than spiritual annihilation. Where your soul is sucked into the void.
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The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
