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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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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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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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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Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.
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I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
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Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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It seems that in every culture, however tough life is and however impossible the conditions, there are some resilient human beings who find their way through, who survive and make something of themselves.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
