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We reach a secondary road and - here comes the bonus - we pass the Temple of Neptune and Cerene, at Paestum, both looking beautiful in the sunlight. Strung from the Doric columns are lines of soldiers' washing. At last they had been put to practical use. If only the ancient Greeks had known. Spike Milligan

Beautiful, Soldiers, Looking, Road, Only

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. Stella Adler

Life, Truth, People, Theatre, Situation

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Marilyn French

Love, Love Is, Yourself, Power, Mind

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet. John Updike

War, Sky, God, Red, Fire, Imagination

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. Thomas Jefferson

Soldier, Free, Citizen, Must, State

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. Thucydides

Beautiful, Simple, Mind, Loss, Without

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Robert Kennedy

Life, Man, World, Gentle, Years, Us

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. Stephen Gardiner

Man, Circle, Legs, His, Ancient, Arms

I think the history of the world suggests if one studies the Romans, and one studies the early Greeks, and one studies the history of the world, they all eventually falter if they don't come back to the basic aspect of integrity and honor and feelings of love one for another. Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Love, History, Integrity, Think, World

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed. Marlon James

Character, People, Think, Only, Heroes

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. Barack Obama

Believe, American, I Believe, Just

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. Henry David Thoreau

Sincere, Been, Worshipper

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.' Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Death, Happy, Unhappy, Said, His, Till

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.' Muhammad Ali

You, Gold, Better, America, Said, Goal

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education. Tom Chatfield

Education, Best, Art, Focus, Teachers

In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication. John Burnside

Sun, Vision, Dedication, Speed, Clear

The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe. John Henrik Clarke

Face, People, World, Place, New, Earth

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. Jan Peter Balkenende

Great, Society, Ideas, Enlightenment, Us

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. Robert Mondavi

Life, Food, Art, You, Wine, Back

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. Jorge Luis Borges

Uncertainty, Unknown, State, Known

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama. Lillian Hellman

Man, Beginning, Believe, You, Problems

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nature, Knowledge, New, Human Nature

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. Virgil

Fear, Gifts, Bring, Even

While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles. Tim O'Reilly

Eyes, Sacrifice, Tears, Choice, Glory

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. Emil Nolde

Beautiful, Time, Soul, Art, Religion

You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true. Melina Mercouri

Me, You, True, Warm, Know, Said

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