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«It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks»
«Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.»
«Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.»
«And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.»
«And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, / Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews: / And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, / Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.»
«I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.»
«For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: / But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; / But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.»
«GORGON, n.The Gorgon was a maiden bold Who turned to stone the Greeks of old That looked upon her awful brow. We dig them out of ruins now, And swear that workmanship so bad Proves all the ancient sculptors mad.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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«As for you, turn over the pages of the Greeks, as exemplars, by night and by day.»
«Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.»