"If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension"."

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Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 60, 1985.

Moses Finley

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“Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.”

Source : Phyllis A. Whitney (1985). “Writing juvenile stories and novels: how to write and sell fiction for young people”, Writer
“Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.”
“In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.”

Source : "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.
“There is no substitute for knowledge.”
“Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts”
“I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal”

Source : Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.
“As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.”
“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”

Source : Malheur et Pitie canto 1 (1803)

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