Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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I studied Morse code.
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People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.
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Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
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Wherever I find love I will accept it.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.
Garry Kasparov -
I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers.
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The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I've been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.
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The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.
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The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens... Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.
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I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.
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One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.
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Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.