"Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ..."

-- Arrian

#Leader Quotes #Greek Quotes #Done Quotes

“I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.”
“Atheism is the absence of religion. We donâ€™t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.”
“In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.”

Source : Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.53, Stanford University Press
“At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something that was bigger, different than anything I had ever imagined, which was actually being involved with other people. I just don't live the average artist's life.”
“The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.”
“I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.”
“Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.”

Source : Jonathan Tropper (2007). “How to Talk to a Widower”, p.99, Bantam
“As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.”

Source : Zahi Hawass (2015). “Magic of the Pyramids: My adventures in Archeology”, p.28, Leonardo Paolo Lovari

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