Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
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Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.
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I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
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You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.'
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I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.
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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
