Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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• As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

  Hal Borland
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• If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.

  

  Patrick Henry
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• It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

  

  D. L. Hughley
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• My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Justice
  • Progress

• Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Expectations
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• We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Environment
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• Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having to learn it. Like in 'The Matrix.' Imagine all the years saved!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Knowledge
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• We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.

  

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• I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Time
  • Happy
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• To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Live
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• There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Good
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• Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Help
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• We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Religion
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  • Hostility

• But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Book
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  • Beautiful

• I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Money
  • Rich

• The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • Environment
  • Challenge
  • Poverty

• I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there's a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.

  

  Abby Brammell
  • Deserve
  • Satisfaction
  • Recognition

• I was shamed.My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for a long time now. Well, I don't believe in God either, but every day in school I'm forced to say prayers, and I feel like a hypocrite. Why should I be compelled to betray my beliefs?" I couldn't answer him.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
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• We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca