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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

Greek

"One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing."

People Reality Greek

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic

Greek

"Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen."

Men Gentleman Greek

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Barack Obama Politician

Greek

"In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology"

Book Greek Mind Blowing

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Stella Adler Actress, Director

Greek

"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place."

Mean Theatre Greek

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Gilbert Murray Classical Scholar, Writer

Greek

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

Reading Literature Greek

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian

Greek

"Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

Patriotic Greek Patriotism

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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic

Greek

"Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood."

Thinking Latin Greek

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian

Greek

"Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks."

Fighting Hero Greek

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer

Greek

"The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart."

Heart Born Greek

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Jeff Smith Chef

Greek

"The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one."

Food Greek Squids

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst

Greek

"...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis."

Insane Greek Nymphs

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer

Greek

"The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now."

Mean Missing Greek

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Anne Carson Poet

Greek

"What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being."

Names Greek Somewhere Else

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Greek

"The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored."

Love Is Desire Greek

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father

Greek

"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us."

Philosophy Religion Greek

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Socrates Philosopher

Greek

"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."

People Men Greek

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher

Greek

"Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love"

Language Speak Greek

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Albert Einstein Physicist

Greek

"How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science."

Greek Educated Educated Person

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John F. Kennedy Politician

Greek

"The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence."

Creativity Creative Greek

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Aleister Crowley Occultist, Writer

Greek

"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."

Men Greek Illiterate Person

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