"No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did."

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Source : Stacy Schiff (2010). “Cleopatra: A Life”, p.287, Hachette UK

Stacy Schiff

#Territory Quotes #World Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.”

Source : Carol Orsborn (2010). “The Art of Resilience: One Hundred Paths to Wisdom and Strength in an Uncertain World”, p.25, Harmony
“I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.”
“Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.”
“The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.”
“Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.”
“The real world just doesnâ€™t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesnâ€™t motivate us as effectively. Reality isnâ€™t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasnâ€™t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.”
“Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.”
“The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.”

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