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“Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.”

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Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

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When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

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None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

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Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as…

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“He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek. ”

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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know…

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It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming…

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When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

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Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our…

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My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

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Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around…

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I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

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The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.

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I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in…

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I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

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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 has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet…

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There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or…

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When we started Appaloosa, we were going to name it Pegasus because everyone was using Greek names. We filed the name. We paid $300,…

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