Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.
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When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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When I give I give myself.
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With four kids, it's hard to watch anything other than 'Sesame Street.'
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To be premature is to be perfect.
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In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep.
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I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
