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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
doctrine given great history method needless perhaps rather study
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions. Goldwin Smith
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally. Gore Vidal
doctrine given heresy minority name powerful weak
Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak Robert Ingersoll
doctrine wealth natural
I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception. William Wilberforce
doctrine life preach wish
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life Theodore Roosevelt
doctrine done causes
According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it. Blaise Pascal
doctrine given
My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.
doctrine hold thou
So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.
doctrine creeds
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting. Ben Jonson
narrative miraculous has-beens
I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous. C. S. Lewis
narrative
I hear music as narrative. Ajay Naidu
narrative adhesive film
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. Carter Burwell
narrative
Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers. A. S. Byatt
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We think those may be the narrative ones,
narrative theme filmmaking
I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme. Darren Aronofsky
narrative filmmaking
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
narrative captains boat
We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else. Anne-Marie Slaughter
narrative faults done
I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that.