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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
shields insult room-with-a-view
I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. E. M. Forster
shields easier idealist
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist. Kristin Hannah
shields minorities constitution
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. James K. Polk
shields truth-is
The truth is often one's best shield. James Rollins
shields
How can I shield myself from the things that I hear? Juliana Hatfield
shields protect-you protect
Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you. Queen Rania of Jordan
shields groups my-friends
When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me. Samantha Mumba
shields red faces
I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum. Les Dawson
empires sometimes lost
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire... Cardinal Richelieu
empires study imperialism
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5) Edward Said
empires world plunder
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.
empires dishes ifs
If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire. Daniel Pinkwater
empires misery humans
The history of empires is the history of human misery. Edward Gibbon
empires roles found
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. Dean Acheson
empires poet modern
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. Dana Gioia
empires
We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic. Donald Rumsfeld
empires holy regimes
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern. George Will