Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.
Quotes to Explore
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.
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The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
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People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.
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I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.
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I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.
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Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
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The TED talk I gave, that gave me another character I didn't know about. I'm not saying the mind of a hero, but a kind of responsibility. Every word I'm speaking, it's not from myself. I'm speaking for and representing the people of communist North Korea.
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Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
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'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect.'
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To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.
