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Tag Name "Greeks" (150)

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The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.
Louis Pasteur
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Just are the ways of heaven from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
Homer
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Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.
Winston Churchill
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The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
Margaret Fuller
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The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
Hugh MacLennan
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American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.
Yorgos Lanthimos
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I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic. That REALLY didn't sound good. What do you mean? I asked. what OTHER GODS? I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside –– magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant. ~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?
Rick Riordan
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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
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The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
Isabelle Huppert
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While the Tamils were inventing cabs and leather jackets, we Greeks were busy inventing philosophy. But I guess everybody needs cabs and leather jackets.
Romain Gavras
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Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.
Mary Stewart
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I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.
Jack Nicholson
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The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.
Sandra Boynton
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Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.
Melina Mercouri
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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
Jan Peter Balkenende
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The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.
Sophocles
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For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.
Miguel Serrano
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We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?
Jeb Hensarling
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Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
Theodore Parker
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Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in Europe they might have been able to resist the demands of the Troika, but they had almost no support. Not even from Portugal, Spain, or other left forces. They were left alone.
Noam Chomsky
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You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: Did he have passion?
Jeremy Piven
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson
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Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
Oliver Stone
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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
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