Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
Seneca the Younger
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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.
Ferdinand Marcos
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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.
Taylor Hanson
Hanson
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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.
Brown Campbell
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
Felicity Kendal
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I didn't go to school a lot.
Victoria Abril
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
Ian Somerhalder
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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.
Sam Heughan
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
Malorie Blackman
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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.
Rachel Kushner
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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.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Kate Beckinsale
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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.
Cory Doctorow
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the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.
Melanie Klein
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The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
Ed Markey
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What other people think of us usually has very little to do with who we are. It has a lot more to do with the other individuals' issues-their prejudices, their fears, and projections. So it is a waste of time to constantly try to impress or please others.
Beverly Engel
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Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
Jonathan Sacks
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He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
Seneca the Younger
