Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
Raha Moharrak
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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
Barbra Streisand
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The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.
Laura Anne Gilman
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The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
Edna O'Brien
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Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.
David Suzuki
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We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.
Jane Powell
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We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
Haile Selassie
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
Seneca the Younger