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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 means poet
Poet in Greek means maker. It's the idea of making something that has never been made before. Amanda Cunningham
greek-poet love
Friends show their love in times of trouble. Euripides
greek olive
Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. Yotam Ottolenghi
greek democracy acropolis
The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day. David Sedaris
greek yeah questioning
So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so. Eddie Izzard
greek-poet undergo
The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal. Menander
greek
For my part, it was Greek to me. William Shakespeare
greek musical tragedy
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. Billy Joel
stories
What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.' David S. Goyer
stories fingers written
History is a story written by the finger of God. C. S. Lewis
stories loses
They say a story loses something with each telling. Cecelia Ahern
stories ordinary persons
Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
stories use world
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family. Bill Bryson
stories
My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings. Patricia Polacco
stories unicorn happy-endings
A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story
stories clean devices
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it. Baz Luhrmann
stories subtle william
William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written. Kim Edwards