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“It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.”

“Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined to civil life; and secondly the mercenary class, who were severe and numerous and intractable...; and, third, the tribe of the Alexandrians, who also were not distinctly inclined to civil life, and for the same reasons, but still they were better than those others, for even though they were a mixed people, still they were Greeks by origin and mindful of the customs common to the Greeks.”

People Firsts Stills Reason Three Common Cities Class Thirds Greek Native Customs Severe Tribes Egypt Mercenary Alexandria

Author:Strabo

“By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.”

Writing Sleep Greek Facilitate Opium Poppies

Book:The Secret Life of Sleep

Source: The Secret Life of Sleep

“Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.”

Art Philosophy Artist History Greek Greek God

Book:Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews

Source: Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews

“I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason.”

“What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.”

Humans Able Literature Human Beings Greek Meant To Be

Author:Edward Bond

“What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."”

Years Firsts Wells Littles Done Church Five Four Mystery Atheism Hundred Stronger Ancient Positive Atheism Flesh Versions Greek Latin Manifest Godliness

Author:Isaac Newton

“The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.”

Funny Debt Greek Olympics Medal London Olympics

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.”

Reading Literature Easy Ancient Greek Great Work Ancient Greek

Book:On the Art of Poetry

Source: On the Art of Poetry

“the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space of time and the seasons which they delimit. It was observation of the course of the stars which led them to adopt this divisionIt is also the Egyptians who first bought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them”

Years Firsts Use Courses Names Stars Space Seasons Observation Greek Portions Twelve Adopted

Author:Herodotus

“From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks”

Names Worthy Architecture Greek Zodiac

Book:The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

Source: The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy

“My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.”

Lasts Mother Father Names Born Half Raised Chinese Greek Germany Hawaii Filipino

Author:Mark Dacascos

“The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied; nevertheless, because all elements of a synergetic system support one another, they also support the whole.”

May Whole Together Individual Goal Sin Support Elements Atmosphere Greek Working Together Nevertheless Supportive Synergy

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.”

Thinking Rooms Fronts Drama Tragedy Greek Epic Greek Tragedy

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.”

People May Children Art Justice Mysterious Greek Imaginative

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)

“The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.”

Ifs Hands Religious Simple Kissing Atheist Treated Superiors Esteem Greek Temples Customs Compliment Inferiors Ceremony Paganism Tokens Salutations

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.”

“It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.”

Knows Said Past Labor Males Greek Pleasant Verses Recollection

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.”

Thousand Ten Army Greek March Posterity Brevity Compact

Book:Among My Books: First [-second] series

Source: Among My Books: First [-second] series

“Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.”

People Ifs Should Looks Littles Made Together Simple Should Have Doctors Regard Greek Latin Preaching Should I Spares Simplest Gross Hebrew Philip

Author:Martin Luther

“It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.”

People Thinking World Children Has Beens Stories Seems School Remember Used Mother Father Language Black Grace Heard Greek Black People Marvelous Aunt Ohio

Author:Toni Morrison

“Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]”

Heaven Hunger Hungry Greek

Author:Juvenal

“Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.”

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

“On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.”

Stories Reality Together Three Courses Stage Drama One Day Greek Trilogies

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.”

Men Way Heaven Greek Woe Doom

Book:The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc

Source: The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope, etc

“Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me.”

Knows Too Much Praise Blame Greek Know Me Blame Me

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]”

Knows Knowledge Greek Thyself Know Thyself

Author:Solon

“I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.”

Mind May Littles Ideas Language Wish Flower Bears Greek Soil Manure

Book:Memoir and Letters

Source: Memoir and Letters

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”

“To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself”

“We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.”

Believe Greek Exit Eurozone

Author:Antonis Samaras

“I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.”

Men Mother Eating Greek Household Greece X Men

Author:Arianna Huffington

“The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.”

World Mind Firsts Roles Chiefs Greek Irrational Protagonists

Book:The Greek way ; The Roman way

Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way

“The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.”

Mind Spirit Creation Excellence Architecture Greek Temples Greece Equilibrium

Book:The Greek way ; The Roman way

Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way

“In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.”

“To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.”

World Beautiful Spirit Gone Mark Greek Distinction Rejoice Delightful Greece Distinguished

Book:The Greek way ; The Roman way

Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way

“The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.”

Games Religious Originals Institutions Ancient Greek Ancient Greek Solemnity

Author:Dorothea Brande

“Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.”

Two Together Political Three Party Greek Political Parties Greece

Book:This Rough Magic

Source: This Rough Magic

“The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.”

Needs Country Healing Grace Middle Understood Greek Toronto Middle Ground

Author:Hugh MacLennan

“In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.”

Has Beens Matter Care Gains Greek Antiquity

Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.”

Way Passion Force Cities Principles Modern Police Greek Unleashed Police Force Unleashing

Author:Caroline Gordon

“when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !”

Knows World Art Hands Enemy Millions Fire This World Understood Perfection Greek Live By Excess Greek Art

Book:Impressions that remained

Source: Impressions that remained

“war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons.”

Source: Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

“The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.”

People Past Common Greek Framework Verdict

Author:Alexis Tsipras

“In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. They got the joke. And the American people get the joke.”

People Men Has Beens Facts Civilization Jokes Institutions Unions Western Ancient Celebrate Greek One Man Protected Homosexuality One Woman Western Civilization Ancient Greek

Author:Ken Blackwell

“The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.”

People Made Different Play Stories Use Seems Used Kings Originals Mythology Brands Greek Disguise Inventing Brand New Premium

Author:Arthur Miller

“A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.”

States Organization Bases Greek Territorial

Author:Carroll Quigley

“I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.”

Philosophy Wanted Study Civilization Foundation Ancient Greek Latin Broads Lifelong Ancient Civilizations

Author:Tim Blake Nelson

“A heroic nature is very Greek.”

Greek Heroic

Author:Patrick Wilson

“I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.”

Thinking Lying Situation Comedy Modern Drama Greek Performers Greek Drama

Author:Brendan Coyle

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