Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Barry Bonds
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
Edmund White
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
Zosia Mamet
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In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.
Martina McBride
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I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.
Barack Obama
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If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?
Diane Ackerman
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I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.
Gabriel Orozco
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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca