Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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Funny is an attitude.
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There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
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Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
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I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
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I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
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You better check your playlist. Because you are on the wrong track.
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I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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My job is to awaken possibility in other people.
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
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He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
