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• As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

  John F. Kennedy

  Happiness, Jobs, Excellence

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• It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

  Thucydides

  Reality, Men, People

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• I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you.

  Giannis Ritsos

  People, Helping, Let Me

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• There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Military, War, Latin

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.167, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Character, Theatre, Usual

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

  Arsenio Hall

  Mean, Unique, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

  Jorge Garcia

  Fun, Eye, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All you have to do is wear a hat, dark glasses and carry a Greek newspaper.

  Sharon Stone

  Dark, Glasses, Hats

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• You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

  Walter Matthau

  Father, Thinking, Catholic

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• Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

  Emma Thompson

  Christian, Children, Understanding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

  Jeremy Piven

  Passion, Writing, Men

  "Fictional character: Dean Kansky". "Serendipity", www.imdb.com. September 13, 2001.

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• "Eureka" is Greek for "This bath is too hot."

  Tom Baker

  Hot, Baths

  "Fictional character: Doctor Who". TV Series "Doctor Who" ("The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Part Five", 1977), www.imdb.com. 1963-1989.

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• Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go with air, roots with earth, and the phoenix with incendiary sun. And innocence belongs to us as it did to ancient Greek athletes, who never wore clothes for their footraces or boxing matches but rather oiled themselves until their nude bodies glistened in the sunlight.

  Janet Lembke

  Children, Athlete, Thinking

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• One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

  Socrates

  People, Source, Knows

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• Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

  Herodotus

  God, Men, People

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• Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinks—a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece.

  Tom Standage

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

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• Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

  Edward Bond

  Drama, Done, Literature

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• The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry, our habit of work have produced our economic nemesis. Work made modern men great, but now threatens to usurp our souls, to inundate the earth in things and trash, to destroy our capacity to love and wonder.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Men, Ideas

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.66, Bantam

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• The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

  John F. Kennedy

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

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• I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Reality, Roots

  Interview with Jennifer Levitsky, www.bookreporter.com. April 28, 1998.

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• Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Views, Order, Design

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• The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative.

  Henry Grady Weaver

  Majority Rule, Historical, Democracy

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• .. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally to the family household and its daily operations and maintenance." The term ecology is therefore intended to refer to the study of the conditions of existence that pertain to, and the interactions between, all the entities that make up our larger, cosmic household here upon earth.

  Warwick Fox

  Maintenance, Earth, Philosopher

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• There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

  Paul the Apostle

  Jesus, Males, Female

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• The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.

  Karl Jaspers

  Wise, Philosophy, Mean

  "Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy". Book by Karl Jaspers, 1951.

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