Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.'
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Greatness comes with discipline.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
