Per aspera ad Astra.


Seneca

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Ad astra per aspera [To the stars through difficulties]
MOTTO
Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.
RUTA SEPETYS
Ad astra [To the stars]
MOTTO
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
SENECA
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetu...
SENECA
We pay based upon on ratings. As the audience grows, we pay more per ad.
JACK MILLER
I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
LALLA WARD
Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora...
CHRISTOPH CELLARIUS (KELLER)
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERBS
You can't put just anybody back there and simulate what Mike can do. With Seneca here, he's really g...
ROCKY BERNARD
You've taken the Seneca Valley taxpayers for roughly $320,000.
TOM ROTH
Seneca Wallace is a good player. He just hasn't played.
MIKE HOLMGREN
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Carl Junction and Seneca is a big rivalry. I quickly found that out.
BRAD SHORTER
If anybody can do it, Seneca can. Without question, Michael Vick is the best athlete in the NFL.
GRANT WISTROM
To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Stree...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD
I think Seneca Wallace grew up a little bit in the preseason when we needed him to,
MIKE HOLMGREN
”(…) spesso sto davanti a me stesso come davanti a un estraneo, quando in ore tranquille un e...
ERIC MARIA REMARQUE
En Skoemager maa ogsaa være vel dreven udi Philosophia morali, og ingen Læsning er ham meere forn�...
LUDVIG HOLBERG
Ronan's smile was sharp and hooked as one of the creature's claws. "'A sword is never a killer; it i...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Kim, Age 11 -...
SENECA
Did the ad effectively portray our position? Yes. Was the ad too harsh in its tone? Probably.
JIM OBERWEIS
I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some...
FRANCESCO PETRARCA
A Chilean subscriber in Detroit would see a local ad, not an ad for a supermarket in Santiago.
TOM HERMAN
Sancta Maria ad Nives.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
We decided to join a track program one summer at West Seneca West High School, and we've been runnin...
EMILY SULLIVAN
We do condemn this ad.
JENNIFER MILLERWISE
Seneca did a wonderful job (against Kansas). They don't know, but they say he's very doubtful for Ne...
JACK BICKNELL
When I started this, it was municipal all the way. I had no hint that the Seneca Nation would be int...
MICHAEL DOWD
Life is not about posting other peoples quotes ad nausium, but creating your own. So others may shar...
EDDY SOULZ
All things were ready for us at our birth; it is we that have made everything difficult for ourselve...
FRANCINE JAY
Upfronts are all about ad sales.
BRYAN FULLER
Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.
SUSAN SONTAG
Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per...
JEFF BEZOS
Greatness is only possible, thanks to the products you are able to produce per seconds, per minutes,...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Newspaper ad: Hiring clowns, must be serious.
PHOTO
The best ad is a good product.
ALAN H. MEYER
No one could ad lib like Peter,
BARBARA WALTERS
It's more of a traditional ad format.
CATHERINE ENGLAND
Increased usage should mean more ad revenue.
BILL GRUESKIN
They make things up. They ad-lib.
DAVID WELLS
Favre, being Favre, tried to ad-lib.
CRAIG NALL
We would have done the ad differently.
KAREN FINNEY
Vogliamo ora congedarci dal nostro vecchio amico in uno di quei rari momenti di felicità perfetta, ...
CHARLES DICKENS
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I ...
PER PETTERSON
'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son....
PER PETTERSON
I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the ...
PER PETTERSON
There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling...
PER PETTERSON
I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the &...
PER PETTERSON
Living here where I live, on a farm way out in the countryside, in the woods, in fact, I have plenty...
PER PETTERSON
Both Nokia and Ericsson are constantly looking at small, bolt-on acquisitions and most companies tha...
PER LINDBERG
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
PER PETTERSON
The likelihood of stumbling is much higher if [like Nokia] you have 80 or 85 percent of earnings com...
PER LINDBERG
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
PER PETTERSON
De som har makt over ordene bør være edru blant de rasende.
PER FUGELLI
You decide for yourself when it will hurt.
PER PETTERSON
I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into bo...
PER PETTERSON
At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, be...
PER PETTERSON
Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choic...
PER PETTERSON
I am afraid we cannot say our remedy has had any real impact, as far as we can see.
PER HELLSTROM
You and I might be a very interesting combination because we're very different.
PER SUNEBY
There would have been massive integration problems and negative revenue synergies,
PER LINDBERG
A molta gente manca questo dono, la capacità di capire quando deve levarsi dai coglioni. Alla gente...
GILLIAN FLYNN
And that is per owner not per dog.
TODD GREENBURG
Plan the sale when you plan the ad.
LEO BURNETT
There's an ad for every vice. That's advice.
BRIAN SPELLMAN
The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.
CLEANTHES OF ASSOS
This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)

"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER
How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember w...
ORIANA FALLACI
Newspaper Ad: Parachute for sale, used once, never opened!!
ANONYMOUS
In 1992, we were spending about $2,400 per year per person in the United States on health care. In P...
LARRY COOK
Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
RICHIE BENAUD
It's pretty much the same variables that we've seen all year: softness in the retail ad category and...
PETER APPERT
We had the right game plan, but our execution had flaws in it at times. (Seneca) is such a good defe...
NATE SPRIGGS
I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
GARY CLARK, JR.
I did Hilary Duff's 'With Love' music video-slash-fragrance ad.
KELLAN LUTZ
It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive tol...
ASHLEY MONTAGU
If I was to say where we were, I'd say we were at about 80-85 per cent where we can be.
IAIN DOWIE
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
THOMAS A. EDISON
Racing is 99 per cent boredom and 1 per cent terror.
GEOFF BRABHAM
Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
RICHIE BENAUD
Newspaper Ad: Snowblower for sale, only used on snowy days.
ANONYMOUS
That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
A good ad which is not run never produces sales.
LEO BURNETT
That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN
I don't even have an ad in the Yellow Pages.
LUKE GRAY
I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
EDGAR WRIGHT
Groove allows users to do ad-hoc real time collaboration.
MIKE BULMER
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
THOMAS A. EDISON
I guess it was bound to happen. Governor Bush's campaign is getting desperate with a negative ad abo...
JOHN MCCAIN
Even though billions of dollars have been spent on other ad slogans, somehow 'Have it Your Way' cont...
RUSS KLEIN
why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of Af...
JARED DIAMOND
The Victorian Opposition continues to lose ground to the ALP, down 1.5 per cent to 32 per cent, and ...
GARY MORGAN
the true honour of things; we become alternately merchants and merchandise, and we ask, not what a t...
FRANCINE JAY
I hear from broadcasters pretty often. Their ad revenue is down.
GENE GREEN
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
WILL ROGERS
The day the first ad hit, everything just sort of exploded,
STEVE NILES

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He who profits by a crime commits it
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