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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: roman
Birth: 5 BC - 65 AD

Topics

Life Great Happy Happy Life Find

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

Jermaine Jackson

Medical Doctor World Care You Oath

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

Live Respect Peace World Society

So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'

Art Theatre World Reality End You

I believe that good television should be challenging and frustrating and maddening and thrilling. If you just want to see people who look like you and think like you and do what you would do in any given situation, you'd have to stop looking at TV and start looking in a mirror. But would that be as much fun?

Good Mirror Fun People Start Think

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

History Problem Skin Know Him Task

It pumps me up - the whole idea of the bowler marking his run-up, popping at the crease, the crowd chanting, nerves building up. It's a very good feeling. Right from the first ball, I know I have to be at the top of my game.

Good Me Building Game Feeling Know

Obama doesn't run around wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque nameplate necklace that says 'Socialist.' But his policies, actions, words, background and associations speak louder than any ID necklace ever could.

Words Speak Run Necklace Actions ID

When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met.

Technology Money People Think New

I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

Good Goals Myself Outside Need Very

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Friend Action Thought Enemy

I understand that you cannot always be on the top or be the best.

Best You Understand Top Always

Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.

Time Food Energy You Hand Things

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