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Nicolas Berggruen

"Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions, that will last forever. That's real value."

Source : "Homeless Billionaire Shuns 'Unsatisfying' Material Possessions Despite $5 Billion Worth" by Jim Gardner, www.christianpost.com. October 4, 2012.

Nicolas Berggruen

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“It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.”
“History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago. [...] The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.”
“I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.218, Broadway Books
“I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?”
“I tell employee of T-Mobile, "Listen, if some of this doesn't make sense to you, what should make sense is the reason I'm telling you - I respect you as an owner and as a partner and I'm going to tell you this all the time. Feel free to tune out."”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“For the Spartans, it wasnâ€™t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!”
“One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.”

Source : Tobias Smollett (1820). “The expedition of Humphry Clinker”, p.161

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