"We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day."

-- Stacy Schiff

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“The next wave of medical advances will be when we come to recognize the body as an energetic system.”
“Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.”

Source : Samuel Foote (1799). “The works of Samuel Foote, esq. ...”, p.243
“I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.”
“I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.”

Source : Tama Janowitz (1991). “Slaves of New York”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.”
“I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.”
“My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.”
“The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility.”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.221, Del Rey

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