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It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human… — Gore Vidal
The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that… — Leland Ryken
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so… — Donald Kagan
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come… — Eleanora Duse
England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English… — Melina Mercouri
"From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome which… — Nesta Helen Webster
How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same… — George Papandreou
Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a… — George Papandreou
Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made… — George Papandreou
We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now… — George Papandreou
Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in… — George Papandreou
Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have… — George Papandreou
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone. — Evangelos Venizelos
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. — Andrew Wiles
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit… — Tobias Dantzig
The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks know that I… — Socrates
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake… — Marshall McLuhan
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus… — Edward Weston
Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail? — George Chakiris
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we… — David Gemmell
The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind… — George A. Sheehan
The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as… — Harry S. Truman
I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way,… — Sarah Ruhl

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