Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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There is something so fun about scaring yourself.
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I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.
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On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
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I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn't my calling.
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I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!
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A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.'
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No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.
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And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.
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In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
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What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—“a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see what we want to see.” What happens when we encounter new information that contradicts our beliefs? Researchers at Stanford monitored subjects’ brain activity to trace how they responded to cognitive dissonance. Democracy is endangered when we only listen to people we agree with.
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Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.
