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“For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.”

Humans Long Ideas Earth Powerful Worship Long Time Ancient Stuck Greek New Ideas Good God Ancient Greek Time On Earth Greek God Hindu God

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.”

Years Littles Art Fame Directors Claims Magazines Greek Executives Editors Accents Art Director

Author:Jane Haddam

“We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”

People Should Play Dies Air Return Drama Theater Dresses Boxes Dinner Theatre Evening Greek

Author:Eleanora Duse

“I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.”

Life Is Realizing Comedy Tragedy Musical Greek Greek Tragedy

Author:Billy Joel

“The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.”

World Doe Education Doubt Greek No Doubt Latin Curriculum Latin And Greek

Author:E. V. Lucas

“They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit the dictates of their intuition. In short, they broke all the laws of rigor and of mathematical decorum. The veritable orgy which followed the introduction of the infinitesimals... was but a natural reaction. Intuition had too long been held imprisoned by the severe rigor of the Greeks. Now it broke loose, and there were no Euclids to keep its romantic flight in check.”

“The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.”

Knows Said Wisdom Greek Wisest Oracles

Author:Socrates

“The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek."”

“Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.'”

Two Done Hands Greek Weed Request Selected Chiropractic Reverends

Author:Daniel D. Palmer

“New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.”

Way Writing Firsts May Made Order Literature Mistake Known Media Achievement Mere Patterns Made It Code Greek Visuals Printing Transmission Supposing New Media Supposing That

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.”

“I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous.”

People Thinking Guy Father Acting Stage Fool Blue Blind Eight Convinced Theatre Ridiculous Greek Skirts

Author:Rutger Hauer

“Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.”

Wells Different Matter Certain Language Understood Greek Spokes Latin Quantity French Language

Author:Robert Fitzgerald

“I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.”

Littles Song Challenges Okay Greek Cypriots

Author:Andrew Bird

“I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.”

Way Years School Lasts Hours Teach Teacher High School University Accidents Greek Lunch Last Year

Author:Anne Carson

“There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.”

Thinking Way Trying I Can Use Poet Metaphor Greek Always Trying Using Me Density

Author:Anne Carson

“I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.”

War Stuff Mythology Greek Greek Mythology Greek Myth

Author:Tyson Chandler

“Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?”

Failing Greek Restaurants

Author:George Chakiris

“I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.”

Thinking Firsts Real Economy Position Cost Happenings Evidence Down And Financial International Debt Greek Very Positive Financial Markets

Author:Vince Cable

“My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.”

Father Grew Grew Up My Family Doctors Expected Greek Islands Physicians Olives

Author:Peter Diamandis

“Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.”

“Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?”

Looks Littles Art Speak Media Figures Smart Mouths Art Is Weak My Favorite Entertainment Greek Works Of Art Laughable

Author:Chet Baker

“It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.”

Years Christian Christianity Study Hundred Corruption Theology Greek Biblical Fifteen Science And Religion Christian Theology

Author:Mary Hesse

“English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.”

Has Beens Language Meetings Backgrounds Greek Latin Vacuums Renaissance Hebrew Cleaners Vikings Latin And Greek

Author:David Crystal

“People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.”

People Trying Tragedy Greek Greek Tragedy

Author:Curt Flood

“If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.”

People Ifs Trying Has Beens Citizens Greek Monstrosity

Author:Nigel Farage

“I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.”

Body Produce Greek Cheese Feta Cheese

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.”

Saws Childhood Dad My Dad Greek Mum Grandparent Mum And Dad Jamaicans

Author:Lianne La Havas

“The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind and soul, the creation of beauty, the mastering of athletics, and the challenge of competition. A French sociologist points this out. "Sports," he wrote, was part of the education of the citizen. He was expected to engage in exercise for a whole series of reasons that had to do with the shaping of the citizen; the relation between moral good and physical good; and the growth of a person.”

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