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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
mouths necks hush-hush
You should go," I breathed. "You should definitely go." "Go here?" His mouth was on my shoulder. "Or here?" It moved up my neck. Becca Fitzpatrick
mouths certain wells
Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth. Billy Corgan
mouths looks world
I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your f-kin' mouth. Bill Hicks
mouths oratory bones
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. Charles Churchill
mouths
I just open my mouth and out it comes. Billie Joe Armstrong
mouths remember notice-me
You're gonna notice me when I come in. I'm gonna make a statement without opening my mouth, and when I leave, you're gonna remember that. Busta Rhymes
mouths taste
There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all. David Bowie
mouths cigarette
Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.
mouths actors heard
Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately? Bruce Willis
esoteric tasks ifs
I'm after something far more esoteric than a virginal shag. Though, if you'd like, darlin', I'm certainly up for the task. Carl Jung
esoteric ingredients facts
Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric. Anton LaVey
esoteric blunt connected
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
esoteric
Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting. Paul Rand
esoteric reconcile simply traditions
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty. Helena Blavatsky
esoteric knew music people playing type
When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing. Steve Lacy
esoteric ordinary commonplace
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace Chuck Jones
esoteric fields learning-from-others
Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners. Dave Gibbons
esoteric deliverance kind
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. Keith Richards