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“We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex”

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.”

Men Years Bigs Faces Situation Gone Week Shots Suicide Greek Old Man Parliament Greece

Author:Nigel Farage

“Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether.”

Thinking Giving Opinion Path Accounts Lays Astronomy Wander Greek Worthwhile Uncertain Floating Neglected Comets Airy Vapor Meteors Vapour

Author:Edmond Halley

“... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.”

Humanity England Delight Greek Modesty Cant Insulting

Author:Thomas Love Peacock

“The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.”

Humans Inspiration Action Beautiful Language Bears Spring Enthusiasm Greek Grandeur Human Actions Beautiful Words

Author:Louis Pasteur

“He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess.”

Built Greek Goddess Greek God

Author:Sparky Anderson

“Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.”

Has Beens Air Huge Architecture Block Greek Classic Proportion Temples Columns Old Greek

Author:Arne Jacobsen

“I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not only for the anonymous man who makes sucking noises on the street, not only for the rapist or the judge who acquits him, but for what the Greeks called philo-aphilos, 'hate in love,' for the men women share their lives with-husbands, lovers, friends, fathers, brothers, sons, coworkers.”

Source: My Enemy, My Love: Women, Men, and the Dilemmas of Gender

“If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?”

Ifs Believe Happens Together Form Science House Belief Chance Shapes Letters Greek Atoms Alphabet Tokens Slippers Iliad

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.”

Letters Investing Greek Reports Equations Annuals Annual Reports

Author:Warren Buffett

“In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.”

Political Nations Modern Greek Humiliation Close Relationship

Book:Cyprus

Source: Cyprus

“Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.”

Crisis Blame Response Investing Financial Greek Financial Crisis Speculators

Author:Lawrence Summers

“I have friends who read my books in Greek.”

Book Greek

Author:Brian Lumley

“The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of the hypothesis, Gaia, the Greek name for Mother Earth.”

Facts Earth Mother Names Views Modern Ancient Greek Hypothesis Mother Earth Archetype Gaia

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.”

“Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.”

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Author:Anne Bradstreet

“Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.”

Ifs Bigs Sleep Business Worry Sun Too Much Trouble Appearance Greek Expensive Addresses Cash Elegant Lamps Shortcomings Attics Nickels Greek God

Author:Aristotle Onassis

“A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.”

Wells I Can Church Clouds Ruins Landscape Greek Temples Torn Mist Brahms Old Churches

Book:Letters to colleagues and friends

Source: Letters to colleagues and friends

“Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.”

“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.”

“Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this "blunder," rejected by Einstein, is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter Λ rears its ugly head again and again and again.”

Made Stills Sometimes Problem Today Used Term Letters Constant Ugly Greek Again And Again Rejected Introduction Blunders

Author:George Gamow

“Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.”

Romance Form Suffering Tales Greek Erotic Surviving

Book:L'Atalante

Source: L'Atalante

“I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!”

Home Light Voice Sun Sea Wind Greek Temples

Author:Axel Munthe

“My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning household or domain. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is its management. Ecologists try to define the conditions and principles that enable a species to survive and flourish. Yet in elevating the economy above those principles, we seem to think we are immune to the laws of nature. We have to put the ‘eco’ back into economics.”

“A painting is more than the sum of its parts”

Painting Greek Biodiversity Flipped Apprenticeship Mathematical Logic Reductionism Holism Summing Up Parts Of A Whole Logical Reasoning

Book:Flipped

Source: Flipped

“There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.”

Humans Problem Greek Polish Human Problems

Author:Jacque Fresco

“The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.”

Nations Effort Successful Connections Greek Als Translators

Author:Ibn Khaldun

“Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.”

Firsts Philosophy Problem Teacher Discipline Logic Philosophical Method Details Greek Introduction

Author:Ibn Khaldun

“The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.”

“If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now.”

Ifs Football Needed Horse Greek Commentators Trojans Trojan Horse

Author:Gerald Sinstadt

“The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.”

Long School Earth Christ Atheism Civilization Familiar Greek Sentiments Testament Old Testament Egyptian Persian Pharisees

Author:Joseph McCabe

“Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.”

Play Speak Study Conscious Drawing Greek Piano Take Time Subconscious Clumsy

Author:Robert Beverly Hale

“If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that they are not of the sheep of Christ, since the Lord says that there is only one fold and one shepherd (Jn.10:16). Whoever, therefore, resists this authority, resists the command of God Himself.”

Ifs Christ Lord Authority Committed Command Greek Peter Sheep Folds Shepherds Successors

Author:Pope Boniface VIII

“The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.”

Writing Has Beens Sacred Greek Mathematician Euclid

Author:Augustus De Morgan

“Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements of mathematics in the last 50 years. [Said in 1950]”

Years Said Lasts Found Results Generations Achievement Concepts Experience Aim Mathematics Method Greek Antiquity Previous Generations

Author:Hermann Weyl

“Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.”

Firsts Science Particular Mathematics Math Mathematical Greek Definite Propositions Specifications

Book:An Introduction to Mathematics

Source: An Introduction to Mathematics

“I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.”

Art Poetry Hurt Cruelty Warrior Greek Damage Martial Arts Samurai Ancient Greek Way Of The Warrior High Art Lyric Poetry

Author:Archilochus

“The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them. In this engaging and provocative book, Eldon Taylor provides his readers with specific ways in which their beliefs can lead to success or failure in their life undertakings. Each chapter provides nuggets of wisdom as well as road maps for guiding them toward greater self-understanding, balance, responsibility, and compassion.”

“Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation of the divine; but with a prophetic eye we may see that the garden will often be dedicated in a like manner: at a later time Greek philosophers, and monks in early Christian days, will retire into their gardens for united, yet silent, contemplation.”

Source: History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes

“To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.”

Should Years Seems Animal Should Have Slavery Incredibles Philosopher Equality Oppression Greek Animal Rights Immorality Greek Philosopher

Author:Brigid Brophy

“Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.”

Firsts Art Drama Greek Immortal Greek Drama

Author:Eric Johnston

“The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.”

Games Ancient Athlete Greek Not Sure Ancient Greek Sidelines Kept Woman

Author:Avery Brundage

“On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.”

Ifs Looks Real Bigs Felt Fairs Average Real Life Fats Greek Wedding Hook Publicity Depiction Hook Up

Author:Nia Vardalos

“What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.”

Littles Wish Bits Loses Attitude Little Bit Driven Greek Poetic Laissez Faire

Author:Nia Vardalos

“I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.”

Knows Looks Bigs Shots Let Me Studios Fats Greek Attractive Executives Wedding Reviewers

Author:Nia Vardalos

“Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.”

Poet Greek Lasting Latin Marble

Author:Edmund Waller

“Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.”

Mean Simple Secret Silence Cases Roots Shame Lifts Greek Apocalyptic Articulation Uncovering

Book:Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art

Source: Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art

“The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory genius of the Greeks; no primitive peoples have ever come to study us. This is, on the one hand, a disinterested, intellectually inspired impulse. It is one of our glories. But it is, on the other, part and parcel of exploitation. [] The Western obsession with inquiry, with analysis, with the classification of all living forms, is itself a mode of subjugation, of psychological and technical mastery.”

“No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.”

May Persons Matter Conditions Training Greek Repeats Backwards Alphabet

Book:Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology

Source: Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology

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