Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
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Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.
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Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.
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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
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'She loves this newt-nuzzling blister.'
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
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This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.
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There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce 'that great past to a trouble of fools.' For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.
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Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.
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A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.
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We will just be trying to win so that we increase the gap between us and them. I thought Eastbourne bought well in the summer and I don't expect them to be languishing where they are for too long.
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In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
