Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.
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I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision.
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Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
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I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
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Scriabin isn't the sort of composer whom you'd regard as your daily bread, but is a heavy liqueur on which you can get drunk periodically, a poetical drug, a crystal that's easily broken.
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In se magna ruunt: laetis hunc numina rebuscrescendi posuere modum.
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I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
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I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.
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I always make time for the things that are important to me.
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We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
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For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.
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I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
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When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.
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Just remember that if you've lost something, you will be open to something else.
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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.
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Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
