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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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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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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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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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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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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It's just fun to be in Paris.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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Terror made me cruel.
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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
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Life's hard, Love's harder.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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Great parts of our economy are directly dependent upon women having a weak self-concept. A multi-billion dollar fashion-cosmetic industry testifies to the validity of this approach. A woman who does not know who she is can be sold anything.
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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.
