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How to use the word Greek in a Sentence? Page #14

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Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

– John Greenleaf Whittier

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

– Edith Hamilton

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That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

– Arthur Miller

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

– Vladimir Lenin

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Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

– Alice May Brock

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13 years ago

There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

– Gregory Benford - Timescape

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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

– Socrates

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14 years ago

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

– Henry Kissinger

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14 years ago

Merrill Morgan, this crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again.

– Signs

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But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

– William Shakespeare

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Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese garlic makes it good.

– Alice May Brock

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14 years ago

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

– Henry Louis Mencken

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14 years ago

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

– John F. Kennedy

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