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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Greek

"We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event."

Events Greek Human Experience

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

Greek

"Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts."

Believe Psychology Greek

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Thomas Starr King Minister

Greek

"Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe."

Flower Italian Greek

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Rita Wilson Actress

Greek

"I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek."

Home School Greek

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist

Greek

"We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue."

Firsts Matter Greek

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Robert Fitzgerald Poet

Greek

"Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek."

Different Latin Greek

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Madeline Miller Author

Greek

"I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need to attend your councils. I—' 'No. The Phthians will not care. And the others can talk all they like. I will still be Aristos Achaion.' Best of the Greeks. 'Your honor could be darkened by it." 'Then it is darkened.' His jaw shot forward, stubborn. 'They are fools if they let my glory rise or fall on this."

Fall Sleep Greek

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Politician

Greek

"All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation."

Greek Nations Impressed

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

Greek

"Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in Europe they might have been able to resist the demands of the Troika, but they had almost no support. Not even from Portugal, Spain, or other left forces. They were left alone."

Support Europe Greek

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Henry Adams Historian

Greek

"The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away."

Home Style Greek

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James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist

Greek

"It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity."

Army Greek March

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

Greek

"I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers."

Inspire Greek Philosopher

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

Greek

"Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods)."

Hero Morality Greek

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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer

Greek

"A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation."

Book Running Greek

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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet

Greek

"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."

States Greek Known

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer

Greek

"All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent."

Art Greek Visionaries

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Homer Poet

Greek

"Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me."

Too Much Greek Blame

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Homer Poet

Greek

"Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed."

Men Heaven Greek

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author

Greek

"[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure."

School Age Greek

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poet, Novelist

Greek

"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"

Happiness Death Greek

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