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But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to… — Kenny Smith
As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define… — John F. Kennedy
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films… — Isabelle Huppert
You know the Greeks didnt write obituaries, they only asked one question after a man died, ‘Did he have passion?’ — Jeremy Piven
And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just… — Tony Randall
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly.… — Paul Provenza
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that… — Henry David Thoreau
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you. — Themistocles
I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow… — Helen Keller
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen,… — Hippocrates
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole -- besides being an… — Karl Marx
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the… — Hannah Arendt
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing — Thucydides
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not… — Isadora Duncan
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated… — Anaxagoras
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances, they should fall… — Joseph Kastein
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything.… — Edith Hamilton
The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed… — Unknown Author
The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner… — Joseph Stowell
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry,… — Sam Keen
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. — John F. Kennedy
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom,… — Henry Grady Weaver
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. — Alistair Cooke
We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame them… — Thomas S. Monson

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