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I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need to attend your… — Madeline Miller
A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America?… — Rick Riordan
To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance. — Sidney Sheldon
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston Churchill
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness. — Theodore Parker
The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good,… — Margaret Visser
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound… — Isadora Duncan
Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which… — Albert Camus
The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes… — John Boyle O'Reilly
The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes… — Bayard Taylor
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions… — Richard Jefferies
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and… — Simon Van Booy
For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories. — Neil MacGregor
Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks, the… — Seth Shostak
The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as to… — Tim Birkhead
Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure. — Ken Goldberg
While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of… — Tim O'Reilly
Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by… — John Updike
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in… — Raymond Moody
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics… — Daniel Boulud
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. — Virgil
The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. — George Lloyd
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. — Edward Bond
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not… — Origen

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