Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Seneca the Younger
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Warren Ellis
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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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.
Sam Raimi
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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.
Barry Eisler
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
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What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.
Mark Levin
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They're tournament-tested and play at the highest level. They're ready.
C. Vivian Stringer
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In his thoughtful essay about Taniyama, Shimura made this striking comment: Though he was by no means a sloppy type, he was gifted with the special capability of making many mistakes, mostly in the right direction. I envied him for this, and tried in vain to imitate him, but found it quite difficult to make good mistakes.
Edward Frenkel
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There's a fundamental question that everyone has to answer: What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man? It's not something that science helps you answer at all. It's one of these questions like, Who are you gong to marry? Science doesn't really help you with the question.
Bill Foster
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In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.
John Sulston
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Seneca the Younger
