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SOCRATES Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium
HORACE Plutarch slides the sketchbook across to me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.
LUCAS PAPADEMOS That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS He was an all-conquering tribal leader. He took their cities, he took their land, he took their wome...
DAVID ASHWORTH They want to give away the taxpayers' gold. If somebody went to Fort Knox and took gold out, they'd ...
JAY INSLEE My heart use to be made of gold, but too many people took bites at it to see if it was literally mad...
ANDONI GARCIA A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
PHILIP GOLD I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guard...
RICHARD BURTON Fitz’s human clothes are a huge snoozefest. Check out what Dex and I found in Alvar’s closet!”...
SHANNON MESSENGER Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Philip Morris still generates enormous amounts of cash, ... We're not giving up yet.
DONALD YACKTMAN Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.
EVANGELOS VENIZELOS The market took on some new positions ahead of the Fed. After they raised, as expected, gold came of...
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI Phillips was perfectly fine with it, but I wanted to talk to him anyway. It doesn't mean he's not go...
JOE TORRE Airports are not simulations of cities; rather cities are simulations of airports.
BENJAMIN H. BRATTON Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.
BIBLE Sophie Foster was going home.
SHANNON MESSENGER Take care of my moonlark.
SHANNON MESSENGER Our mistake was in not scoring. But not just tonight, throughout the whole tournament, ... Greece go...
INAKI SAEZ The euro was a little weaker today, so that took gold a little lower.
BILLY FLAHIVE Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But particip...
LUCAS PAPADEMOS We think it's the year of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
TOM BERNARD Those in need see a light of gold, a light of richness with a delightful taste of abilities to succe...
ARIEL S BRITO Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
SUZANNE COLLINS But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS If they do not have forensic proof that he took steroids, they are vulnerable. The cross-examination...
JIM BERGENN The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! / Where burning Sappho loved and sung, / Where grew the ar...
LORD BYRON (Cairo) is a little more experienced. I talked to Phillips about it. Phillips is perfectly fine with...
JOE TORRE (Philip) not only ran hard all night but he played well defensively, too. He really had some big hit...
CHRIS PARDUE Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
BIBLE We call on everyone not to violate the security of all cities in Iraq and make the cities unsafe,
BAYAN JABOR The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis, without any connotation of stupidity or subnormal...
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SUZANNE COLLINS The star only rises at Nightfall...
SHANNON MESSENGER The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...
LEO TOLSTOY Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not ...
LEO TOLSTOY One of the things that we discovered was the fact that cities like these have not received the media...
MIKE LAWSON Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.
ALEXIS TSIPRAS Adelbert deserves this much. This venture is by the people of St Philip but it is also on behalf of ...
TREVOR ALLEYNE All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY People in the U.S. were hoarding gold. It was undermining the nation's financial system. And FDR, al...
DAVID REDDEN The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.
UTAH PHILLIPS Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
JOHN MILTON Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts / And eloquence.
JOHN MILTON But what's worth more than gold?"

"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heav...
TERRY PRATCHETT I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.
MICHELLE PAVER It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostl...
SAINT AMBROSE This [region] was being eaten up by sprawl, not only the land but the cities.
ANDRES DUANY You keep claiming you’re not mysterious, but who are you kidding?
-Keeper of the Lost Citi...
SHANNON MESSENGER Style is the dress of thoughts. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,
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BIBLE It's a travelogue for the cities. Some of the cities realize the importance of it to promote the cit...
JAMES RAIA Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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BIANCA WALKDEN A majority of these outlets will be in new cities. A lot depends on the location we get in these cit...
ARVIND MEDIRATTA Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And t...
SUZANNE COLLINS To the extent that a Phillips curve exists, it's a moveable feast.
NEAL SOSS Phillips said. ''I thought anything brought before the town would be binding.
DIANE PHILLIPS Desmond Phillips did an excellent job creating turnovers during the whole tournament.
GARY GOODE So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign ...
JAMES CHANOS Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because t...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of t...
BIBLE What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
OTTO RANK For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not...
PLUTARCH Natural disasters may destroy great cities, but they do not destroy civil rights.
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CHRIS BROWN Sir Philip is disappointed by the tribunal's decision and we are giving careful consideration to the...
HERBERT SMITH Why not? They now have the same chance to create more surprises as Greece in Euro2004.
BERND STANGE Greece wishes to be part of the eurozone, but it must, of course, go through with the necessary refo...
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PARK CHAN-WOOK Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those ...
WOLFGANG SCHAUBLE I shiver, thinking about how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-- to see one tiny part of t...
LAUREN OLIVER The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit...
ALAN GREENSPAN Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW To Greece we give our shining blades.
THOMAS MOORE Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime, ...
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She was broken.
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FRANK MURAMUZI In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities...
APOLLONIUS TYANAEUS For Phillips to say they are halfway to Fusion is over the top.
JOSH GREENBAUM Pure gold does not rust. Only gold alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the co...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR All is not gold that glitters,
Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters
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PLUTARCH Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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PLUTARCH Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
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PLUTARCH Neither blame or praise yourself.
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PLUTARCH An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
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PLUTARCH No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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