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Jackie Kennedy First Lady

Greek

"You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it."

Firsts Greek Lunch

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist

Greek

"Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones."

Latin Greek Notion

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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician

Greek

"Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things."

Science Math Greek

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Sharon Stone Actress

Greek

"All you have to do is wear a hat, dark glasses and carry a Greek newspaper."

Dark Glasses Greek

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Fernando Pessoa Poet, Writer

Greek

"The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese."

Sea Greek Portuguese

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Oscar Wilde Writer

Greek

"To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes."

Clothes Should Have Greek

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Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer

Greek

"In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast."

Long Greek Rome

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator

Greek

"It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria."

Past Males Greek

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Helen Keller Author, Activist

Greek

"If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought."

Perfect Musical Greek

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

Greek

"I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks."

Literature Greek Aurora

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist

Greek

"The Germans made just about every bad investment you could have made in the last 10 years. They invested in Icelandic banks. They invested in Greek government bonds. They were heavy into Irish banks, big into Irish banks, and they bought U.S. subprime mortgage bonds."

Government Greek Mortgage

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor

Greek

"To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was."

Art Past Greek

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Greek

"Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together."

Order Opposites Greek

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist

Greek

"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."

Humanity Library Greek

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist

Greek

"In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization."

Political Modern Greek

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer

Greek

"From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself."

Humanity Greek Pandora's Box

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Arianna Huffington Author, Businesswoman

Greek

"I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating."

Men Mother Greek

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer

Greek

"Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly."

Greek Boundaries Free Will

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William Barrett Philosopher

Greek

"Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself."

Men Hands Greek

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Greek

"Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry."

Greek Architecture Geometry

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