Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.
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I'm covered with loser dust.
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So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another.
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I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
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Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)
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If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.
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Egil Olsen should have gone six games ago. He was totally useless. I'd like to give him a right-hander!
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I have learnt to be a congratulator and not a hater!
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The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
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The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.
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Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through
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Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.
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I love any kind of recognition because as an actor I'm very hard on myself sometimes.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
