Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
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I don't watch a lot of TV.
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The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
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Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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I try always to intimate with the world… with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private.
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There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
