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Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#became #before #died #extinct #father

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#difficulty #fascination #learning #materials #medium

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem. ↗

— Mary Barnett Gilson

#democracy #find #great #our #practicing

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#attacks #bush #clinton #george #george bush

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. ↗

— Rick Moody

#genre #literary #problem

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#change #educating #fellow #greeks #important

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#between #connections #feared #force #most

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#discovery #finding #made #mistake #never

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#brotherhood #everything #good #humanity #i

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#i #less #now #pollyanna #probably