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"But, for my own part, it was greek to me." »William Shakespeare
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"I am not an Athenian or a greek, but a citizen of the world." »Socrates
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"Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark." »Michael Shermer
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"The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim." »Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984
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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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"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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