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Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation. Carl Sagan
greek olive
Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. Yotam Ottolenghi
greeks learned love shakespeare time
I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time. Daniel Woodrell
greek-poet love
Friends show their love in times of trouble. Euripides
greek tasks attention
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human. Alain de Botton
greek-poet mother obedience parent success
Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation. Aeschylus
greek littles chickens
I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] Augusten Burroughs
greek possibility impossibility
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. Aristotle
greek taught teacher
When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer. Alice Oswald
limits teach capability
There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities. Arnold Rothstein
limits price public pushed ticket understanding widespread
I think there's a pretty widespread understanding now that we've pushed the upper limits of the ticket price and the public has pushed back. Gary Bongiovanni
limits faces competitors
Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine. Bill Bowerman
limits player role
He's a role player on our team, but I think sometimes he limits his role more than he should. Bob Thomason
limits positive pushing return spur terms
His return is a big positive for the industry. It will spur everyone on, especially in terms of pushing the limits of technology,
limits expanding thrive
Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Ayn Rand
limits obviously sort start
Obviously we need to start considering limits on this sort of taxation.
limits earning
There is no limit on earnings. Earl Nightingale
limits labels infinite
To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being. Deepak Chopra
facts full great hold media people platforms tv
People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing. Willie Geist
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Steve eats, sleeps, breathes the facts of the case. I was just glad to see him back in the courtroom.
facts way equipment
I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced. Beck
facts way venues
But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it Bill Sienkiewicz
facts evolution improvement
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements. C. S. Lewis
facts enough method
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
facts concrete generalities
God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
facts ever-after happily-ever-after
Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after. Cecelia Ahern
facts england
The fact is that I loved being in England. Bill Vaughan