Greece Quotes - Page 16

• Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Needs, Reputation, Problem

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• But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Creativity, Rome

  "Do All Of Us Possess Genius?". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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• Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion. Religions run in families. If we'd been brought up in ancient Greece we would all be worshiping Zeus and Apollo. If we had been born Vikings we would be worshiping Wotan and Thor. How does this come about ? Through childhood indoctrination.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Childhood, Parent

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• In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.

  Jay Leno

  Greek, President, Unemployment

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• Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Sea, Dying

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Greatness, Egypt, Rome

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• In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America where it became an enterprise.

  Richard Halverson

  Philosophy, Moving, Men

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