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greek humanity library
Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation. Carl Sagan
greek olive
Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. Yotam Ottolenghi
greeks learned love shakespeare time
I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time. Daniel Woodrell
greek-poet love
Friends show their love in times of trouble. Euripides
greek tasks attention
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human. Alain de Botton
greek-poet mother obedience parent success
Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation. Aeschylus
greek littles chickens
I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] Augusten Burroughs
greek possibility impossibility
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. Aristotle
greek taught teacher
When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer. Alice Oswald
humanity universal-love belief
A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . . Benjamin Rush
humanity rodents members
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. Anthony Storr
humanity oblivion fame
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. Antoine Rivarol
humanity mass wave
It is a mass of runners, bobbing like a wave of humanity. Rich Castro
humanity growth fear-of-love
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents Bertrand Russell
humanity impressed incredibly
I have been incredibly impressed by the humanity of the coverage.
humanity people spiritual
Humanity is in spiritual ignorance; people see things that do not exist.
humanity learns near
He was very, very talented. In the beginning, he is a little obnoxious, but he learns humanity near the end.
humanity lust our-actions
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity. Blaise Pascal
library presents
presents all the options; we show the library of tea. Bob Richardson
library
I think reconstructing his library would be fantastic. That would be a real contribution to scholarship.
library study christ
Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library. Charles Spurgeon
library lasts hours
...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. Arthur Ashe
library too-much fields
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
library temples libraries-and-librarians
The library is the temple of learning. Carl T. Rowan
library firsts found
AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her. Brandon Sanderson
library important facts
What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists. Archibald MacLeish
library may affection
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love. Augustine Birrell