Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
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Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
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Change is overrated.
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I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.
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To me, nature always appears more unbalanced than Gary Busey with a clogged Eustachian tube.
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The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.
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No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
