Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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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.
Charles James
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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.
Marlo Thomas
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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)
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.
Muhammad Ali
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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!
Vinnie Jones
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I have learnt to be a congratulator and not a hater!
Vivica A. Fox
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The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.
Albert Einstein
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
Epictetus
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The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it’s independent or a studio movie. I’m much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I’ll be second fiddle. Fine. I’m happy to do it.
Robin Williams
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One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one because its like a bit of a special fraternity.
Andy Roddick
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Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.
Ian Anderson