Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.
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All state obligations are against the conscience of a Christian: the oath of allegiance, taxes, law proceedings and military service.
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Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
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Boys don't cry. But they do. We do. I do. I weep all the time.
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Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
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It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.