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"But, for my own part, it was greek to me." »William Shakespeare
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"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life." »David Grayson
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being." »Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"I am not an Athenian or a greek, but a citizen of the world." »Socrates
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"Flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship, degrading but profitable to him who flatters." »Theophrastus
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"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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"The ancient greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." »John F. Kennedy
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap." »Jacques Martin Barzun
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"I have often thought that the cause of men?s good or ill fortune depends on whether they make their actions fit with the times. A man having prospered by one mode of acting can never be persuaded that it may be well for him to act differently, whence it is that a man?s Fortune varies, because she changes her times and he does not his ways." »Machiavelli
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"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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"I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)" »Albert Einstein
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"Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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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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"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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"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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"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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