"Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour..."

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Source : Robin Lane Fox (2004). “Alexander The Great”, Penguin Group USA

Robin Lane Fox

#Political Quotes #Greek Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.”
“People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.”
“I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.”
“There's a sense here in L.A. that everybody's aware of everybody all the time. It's funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.”
“Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.”

Source : "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.
“Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.”

Source : "The Songlines". Book by Bruce Chatwin, 1987.
“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
“Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.”

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