Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
Quotes to Explore
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
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I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.
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There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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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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I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.
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You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.
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So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.
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With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.
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There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
