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 thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.
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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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Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
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The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.
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Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art...Books are as essential as breathing.
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It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.
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I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
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Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.
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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.
