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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, Place, See

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, Power, Yourself, Love Is, Mind

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

People, World, Face, Place, Earth, Early

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

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, Road, Looking, Soldiers, Last

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. George Lloyd

Wrapping, Myths, Ancient, Knack, Truths

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

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, Warm, Know, You, True, Said

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, Human Nature, New

You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it was a logical concept - but every human being is in enormous conflict about something, even if it's how to get to work in the morning and all of that. Lorraine Hansberry

Work, Morning, Conflict, Think, You, Go

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment. David Gemmell

Good, Live, Age, Moment, Simple, Style

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. Colin Quinn

Life, Living, You, Say, Worth Living

If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks. Frances McDormand

You, Back, Want, Talk, Go, Cultural

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

Uncertainty, Unknown, Known, State

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. Andrew Wiles

Today, Back, Date, Still, Valid

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

Sincere, Been, Worshipper

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 In, Just

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, Should, Must

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, Years, Gentle, Us

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

Gold, Better, America, You, Said, Old

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, God, Fire, Imagination, Sky, Red

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, Add, Would

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, End, Believe, Problems

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do. Nigel Farage

Democracy, Fly, Run, Three, Airport, Now

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, Art, Food, Wine, Three, You

The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes. Jay Parini

Mind, Long, Open, Comfortable, Worship

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