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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
definitions littles madness
My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload. Bharati Mukherjee
definitions great-leadership great-leader
Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental. Bill Hybels
definitions corporations states
The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state Benito Mussolini
definitions destination
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination. Ben Okri
definitions polemics wells
Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything. Art Spiegelman
definitions body infinite
If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.
definitions natural prime
1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.
definitions different action
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result. Albert Einstein
definitions definition-of-beauty
The very definition of 'beauty' is outside. Adam Carolla
language method
Languages are true analytical methods. Antoine Lavoisier
language putting question text
It is a question of putting into the text the language of our accord. David Aaron
language last project sign students summer took treated
Last summer I took a sign language class. There was a project where I was in a group. I was treated just like the other students (in the group).
language process inference
We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths. Bertrand Russell
language speaker understanding
It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.
language
I think that's personality more than anything. (Hideki) Matsui is so different and he's got the language barrier, too. Joe Torre
language likely might policy rather saying small
I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.
language languages life wants wish
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. J. R. R. Tolkien
language last learned necessary speed successful takes technique together
I think so, because of the language that had to be learned and understood. The last thing you get is the technique because the language you can put together. But to be able to put the fundamentals together at the speed necessary to be successful takes some time. You can't have a lot of thought going through your mind. Marty Schottenheimer