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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.
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Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.
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I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
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I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
At a NATO summit in Strasbourg on April 4 2009 -
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
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I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
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If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
The British Journal of Sociology Structure of Power in America, Vol. 9 (March 1958) -
It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
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