Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.
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A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.
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The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
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When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.
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No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
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The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.
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We were licencees of Sara Lee Corp's air freshener brand Ambi Pur, which they sold to Procter and Gamble. So we handed it over to Procter and Gamble. Now we will introduce our own brand of air freshener.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
