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Alexander

«One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.»
Author: Juvenal | Keywords: Alexander, all too, globe, youthful
«If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conqu»
«Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.»
«Come on and hear, come on and hear, Alexander's Ragtime Band.»
Author: Irving Berlin (Composer) | Keywords: Alexander, ragtime
«When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we c»
«True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Contentment | Keywords: Alexander, Diogenes, tub
«I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never»
«If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | Keywords: Alexander, Diogenes

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