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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
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. Yotam Ottolenghi
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I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time. Daniel Woodrell
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Friends show their love in times of trouble. Euripides
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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
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Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation. Aeschylus
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I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] Augusten Burroughs
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. Aristotle
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When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer. Alice Oswald
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Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be? Henry David Thoreau
vex inability ability
It is always our inabilities that vex us. Joseph Joubert
vex matter
It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters. Leonardo da Vinci
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Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still. Michel de Montaigne
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us. Plautus
vex spirit heed
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations Marcus Aurelius
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I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame. Bert Blyleven
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I was waving to all my Dutch fans, because that's all that's out there. KC Boutiette
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I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up. Darby Stanchfield
dutch salad
Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed. Gail Carriger
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There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.
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I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero. Bas Rutten
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I think we had a very good game, playing on this level equal with the Dutch team. It was a really good match and it could have gone either way. Lars Lagerback
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
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The passing away of the grand old man of the training camp, the father of Dutch football, is an enormous loss for the football world.