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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
littles bits little-bit
It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be. Beck
littles
I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
littles little-things hardest
It is often little things that are hardest to stand. C. S. Lewis
littles harder hard
Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life. Cathy Moriarty
littles want left
All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left. Cecil Beaton
littles analysis boring
What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.
littles needs sometimes
The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by. Berkeley Breathed
littles way program
Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication. Bill Budge
littles statistics might
Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be. Bertrand Russell
far-away incompetence disaster
When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away. Robert Kiyosaki
far-away ifs be-you
If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away. Eoin Colfer
far-away coming-back being-afraid
Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Eve Ensler
far-away walks
i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive Jorge Luis Borges
far-away feels whole
Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away? Pablo Neruda
far-away seems right-now
Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now. Mattie Stepanek
far-away ruined-life ruined
He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life. Edith Hamilton
far-away scene
The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered. Peter Stone
far-away controversy
I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy. Usain Bolt