Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.
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There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
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We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.
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The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
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There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.
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Where everybody is guilty, nobody is.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't.
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WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.
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I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.
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A person is either a Christian or not; there is no in between state
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We still haven't had a district tournament win. I'm still in the process of building the program, and we've got good kids coming up.
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But the fundamental reason for taking the time to read is because books (good books, that is; books that matter) are the best aid to extended thought and imaginative reflection we have invented. In our own time, this is particularly important, as an antidote to the segmentation of thought encouraged by digital technologies. Cruising among the infinite quanta of data offered on the internet is fine for finding out information; but the disparate fragments we look at on our various screens rarely cohere into continuous thought, or a deepening of knowledge.
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When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
