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Greek
«I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets»
Author: Bernard Keble Sandwell
| Keywords:
assistance, Greek, librarian, librarians, professor, The Librarian
«In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college»
Author: Joseph Sobran
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
college, Greek, high school, Latin, offering, remedial
«Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.»
«I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
comedy, Greek, Greek a, Greek Tragedy, musical, musicals, musical comedy
«It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author - and that he did not learn it better.»
«If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Music,
Thought
| Keywords:
Greek, Human thought, instruments, musical, musical instrument, musical instruments, The Violin, violin, violins
«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»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
chemistry, crude, English teacher, Greek, Greek a, psychology, The Teacher
«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.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Catholic, degraded, European, European civilization, Greek, nourished, renounce
«I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
doctrines, epicurean, Epicureans, Epicurus, Greek, impute, imputed, imputes, imputing, moral philosophy, roman