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«The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.»
«The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.»
«For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: / The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Besought, Greek a
«I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.»
«?Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn?t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.?»
«Constant dropping wears away a stone. -mid 13th; earlier in Greek»
«To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess»
«In order to teach chemistry or psychology or even history or Greek a man must actually know something, but for the teacher of English nothing seems to be necessary beyond a crude capacity to read and write»
«Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.»
«I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.»

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