Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.
Kate Middleton
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
Katarina Witt
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
Jack Keane
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What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.
Aaron Paul
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I am not driven.
Cameron Mackintosh
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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
Ramon Rodriguez
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
Aaron Allston
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If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?
Kapil Sibal
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
Iain McGilchrist
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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
Aaron McGruder
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See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'
Nadia Comaneci
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. Bradley
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I've been trying to make records and I describe it almost like a "movie for your ears" where it's a little unconventional in its shape and form, but there's something that's intriguing in keeping you wanting to wait and see the next frame of film, except in here what's coming around the corner for your ears.
William Wyman Sherwood
Asia
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What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an intensely pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life here on Earth and transported toward that first step on celestial journeys?
Camille Flammarion
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.
Dalai Lama
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Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.
Lydia Davis
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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
