Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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The word 'souvenir' has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.
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We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
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For a boy or girl, driving cars that they love is fun.
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But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.
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You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
