Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
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The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
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Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
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People go out to the vigil for their own individual reasons, but primarily it's to pay our respects and share our grief collectively.
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Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.
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Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
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Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
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If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.
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Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.
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It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.
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An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
