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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Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.
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Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.
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I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.
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There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just "are" - they exist quite independently of us. The most that man can do is become aware, in a moment of clarity, that they are there, and take cognizance of them.
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On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of spending further sums of money on it. I replied, entering fully into the matter, and giving my opinion that it was worthless.
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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.
