Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
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You ain't gonna sell two copies if you press a double album.
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In considering our traditional ties with the Commonwealth we should remember that it now differs greatly from the entity which existed 20 or 30 years ago. Many of us do not feel quite the same allegiance to Archbishop Makarios or Doctor Nkrumah or to people like Jomo Kenyatta as we do towards Mr. Menzies of Australia.
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I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.
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There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.
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What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!
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Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
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I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.
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I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
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I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.
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My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing.
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For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father in the house with them while growing up or a big butt? I tell you 86 percent of the time, girls say a big butt because it gets them further.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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When I was young, I ate Ho Hos every day.
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Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.
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I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
