Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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I was traveling a lot as a young actor, and while in a new city, I'd want to see the place, so I would just put on my trainers and go for a jog. And the more I did that, the more I found I was traveling longer and longer distances. I just fell into it.
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I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.
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Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
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People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.
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The Bitchun Society had all but done away with any sort of dull, repetitious labor, and what remained-tending bar, mopping toilets-commanded Whuffie aplenty and a life of leisure in your off-hours.
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Let it not be in any man's power to say truly of thee that thou art not simple or that thou art not good; but let him be a liar whoever shall think anything of this kind about thee; and this is altogether in thy power.
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'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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In high school, I was not as much of a grade-follower. I kind of enjoyed more of the social aspect of high school.
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I like Glover Teixeira; he's a former training partner.
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We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.
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America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.
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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
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It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
