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• The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. — Virginia Woolf
• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.… — John F. Kennedy
• I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had… — Bayard Taylor
• Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you… — George Will
• Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and… — Brendan Myers
• A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot… — Unknown Author

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