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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
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
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Recent events on the national level show that response times are critical, Eamon
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Recent events make this a particularly challenging and somewhat anomalous time for our company, Michael Eisner
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Our research shows that for events like the Super Bowl, (groups) are often gathering in the home of an HDTV owner. Brian Woods
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Sporting events will no longer feature anything to do with tobacco,
events reveal surprising
Some of the harmonics of seismic events will reveal some surprising results.
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Our field events did great. We got a first in the throwing. ... We used some freshmen and sophomores in the (400 relay) and got second. That is nice.
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Overall, the issue for the market right now is oil. Today it seems to be about the events in Nigeria, but with oil it's been just one issue after another lately.
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Out of all these great events around here, none are dog-friendly. What we do in our free time for normal recreation we do with our dogs, so why keep leaving them at home? This way you don't have to leave your friend at home and they can share in the experience.
events help historical images impact pictures strong
Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.
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Human experience is usually paradoxical. George Eliot