“ Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action. ”
- Thomas Macaulay- Copy
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“ Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great! ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer. ”
- Jane Elliot- Copy
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“ We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ W our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ I can always get examples from music than I can from illustrative art, if you take an opera which is about Ancient Greece or an opera which is set in sort of Italy or Spain about an amoreuse, Mozart style will be the same for both. You don't have an archaic Greek style for an archaic story and have a sort of sexy, you know, Italian style for a sexy Italian story… ”
- Peter Porter- Copy
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“ In Greece much has been accomplished because of the common effort of all. But still much remains to be done in order to deal with our national issues, to overcome the multifaceted crisis of today, and to safeguard the place that belongs to us. ”
- Constantine Karamanlis- Copy
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“ I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth. ”
- Paul Robeson- Copy
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