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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
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. Yotam Ottolenghi
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I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time. Daniel Woodrell
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Friends show their love in times of trouble. Euripides
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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
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Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation. Aeschylus
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I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] Augusten Burroughs
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. Aristotle
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When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer. Alice Oswald
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Our research shows that the Indian population tends to spend more and save less versus Chinese consumers who save up to 40 percent of their income. Jay McIntosh
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Our recommendations are not a Chinese menu, ... They are a whole system. If all of the important elements are not adopted, it makes it very difficult for the others to succeed. John Lehman
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Part of why we were able to get this deal done was because they really want American families traveling in China. They're infatuated with American culture. And with the Olympics being held in Beijing, the Chinese tourism officials need to show that they're open for business.
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Our No 1 goal here by far is to serve Chinese users, who want useful information on the Internet. Eric Schmidt
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steadily expand its opening-up program in terms of commodity and service trade, and create a level playing field for a fair and transparent competition between Chinese and overseas enterprises. Jiang Zemin
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Our target is low-to-medium volume while Chinese manufacturers are interested in high-volume products.
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People who listen to the music for the music and are adventurous in their playing tend to dig it, those who have a narrower perspective don't. Mark White
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We'll also have the Chinese and a team from either Jamaica or the Bahamas. This meet ranks with a lot of meets in Europe. What better place to take a test?
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I think there's some understanding that if we back off for now, the Chinese will make some movement on currency.
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Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
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Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. Blaise Pascal
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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill. Alfred Korzybski
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A philosopher's a lover of wisdom. Cornel West
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The philosopher must station themselves in the middle. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. Allan Bloom
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We are Uzhbi, a consortium of pygmy philosophers.
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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. Friedrich Nietzsche