Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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I get homesick.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
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I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.
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If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.
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It's a juicy thing to say we're building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it's so clearly the wrong strategy for us.
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Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
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But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity
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Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.
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To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.
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So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.
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The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.
