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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
nations order people understand united
The American people understand that in order to get an organization like the United Nations to reform, there must be consequences. Dana Rohrabacher
nations
When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself. Abdul Kalam
nations
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche
nations
There is no such thing as the United Nations. John Bolton
nations
Politics is history in the making. Adolf Hitler
nations
There are at least 100 First Nations communities that are in a boil-water situation. There are at least 40 of those in Ontario. Phil Fontaine
nations scope simply
On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does. Christian Lous Lange
nations permanent
Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.
nations purpose serve united
Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?
impressed
I'm impressed with one or two of the newcomers.
impressed works
I'm impressed with how well it's gone. It works very well as a different way of getting to MPs.
impressed
I'm impressed with how knowledgeable he is in not only football, but in life.
impressed kept struggling stuff
Landon pitched well. They were struggling with his off-speed stuff and he kept them off balance, and I was impressed with that. Jason Bradbury
impressed questions
I was really impressed with the questions that were asked. John McGinnis
impressed means met police
I was really impressed when I met Will the police motto, 'protect and serve', really means something to him, Michael Pena
impressed time
I was really impressed by Lindsay's race. It was hot, and for her to go out there with that time was great. Jack Warner
impressed played teams
I was pretty impressed because Macon was one of the better teams we've played this season.
impressed
I was real impressed with Latrobe. They have a young team.