"I, for one, will be convinced that the……" — Pierre Trudeau
"I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper."
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Pierre Trudeau
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and…
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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never…
— Edith Hamilton
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I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one…
— Unknown Author
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My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
— John Milton
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What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal…
— Unknown Author
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What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful…
— Kerri Walsh
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What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are…
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