Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

Seneca the Younger

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• I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

  

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• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

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• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

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• I don't want to lose what I've won.

  

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• I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

  

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• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

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• I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.

  

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• I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?

  

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• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

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• I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.

  

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• Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

  

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• I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

  

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• I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.

  

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• I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.

  

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• I don't exercise.

  

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• Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

  

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• And I'd like to say this to Sir James Goldsmith.......who has got nothing to be smug about, and I would like to say that 1,500 votes is a derisory total. We have shown tonight that the Referendum Party is dead in the water, and Sir James can get off back to Mexico knowing your attempt to buy the British political system has failed.

  

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• I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

  

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• What would that be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • People
  • Peace

• It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Peace
  • Wish