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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. Edward Bond | top
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What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. Edward Bond | top
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We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. Marion Zimmer Bradley | top
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If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part. John Eaton | top
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No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. Hermann Ebbinghaus | top
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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama. Lillian Hellman | top
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. Heraclitus | top
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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. Arne Jacobsen | top
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. Samuel Johnson | top
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I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870. John Harvey Kellogg | top
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. Vladimir Lenin | top
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The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. George Lloyd | top
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You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true. Melina Mercouri | top
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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. George Mikes | top
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If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. Robert Mondavi | top
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I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish. Nana Mouskouri | top
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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. Gilbert Murray | top
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The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. Gilbert Murray | top
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | top
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The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood. Zebulon Pike | top
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The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. Johannes Stark | top
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Thucydides | top
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I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. Virgil | top
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Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! Morris West | top
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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura. Laura Ingalls Wilder | top
