Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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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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But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!
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Just as there's some technologies that jeopardize revenue for traditional products, there are also technologies that can significantly lower costs.
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We've got to remain energy-independent. It gives us much more power and freedom than to be worried about what goes on in the Middle East. We have enough worries over there without having to worry about that.
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I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.
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To rule by knowledge ravages the country.
