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greek humanity library
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
originated
I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore. Tom Bodett
originated potato result shows southern species time
This result shows the potato originated one time and from a species that was distributed in southern Peru. David Spooner
originated outside
It may have come from outside purchases, ... It may have originated in the plant, but we don't think so.
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Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for. Robert Battle
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Swag is something that I've had for a long time. Amar'e Stoudemire
time
Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies. E. O. Wilson
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spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human. Adam Carolla
time worked
That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.
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Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one. Charlie King
time
Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.
time waste
Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time Boy George
time union
We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.