"The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon."

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Source : "Geographica". Book by Strabo, 7 BC.

Strabo

#Country Quotes #Mean Quotes #Sea Quotes

“That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.”
“Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I'm excited that there are no songs on 'Tailgates & Tanlines' that I'm iffy about.”
“No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.”
“It is annoying. The work we do is not getting the credit it deserves because we are not winning silverware. It is unfair because I think we have more merit as a club than those who have built their teams with millions of pounds whereas Arsenal have brought in young footballers, who have come here to play a certain kind of football and who have developed.”

Source : "Without our injuries Arsenal would be top of league, says Samir Nasri", April 20, 2010.
“Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses”
“Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.”
“It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.”
“My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.”

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