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Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities. Robert Kennedy

Rights Word Honor Citizen Seen Responsibilities Citizenship More Put Emphasis Since Days Greece Than Often Rome Title

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? Orson F. Whitney

Wisdom History Wealth Honor Power Past Babylon Possessions Ancient Ancient Times Eminence Empires Powers Principle Without Answer Said Overthrow Greece Persia Times Where Rome Mightiest Successive Four Universal

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer. Jane Elliot

Albania is located sixty miles across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. It borders Montenegro and Kosovo to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. If you know nothing about 'the Land of the Eagles,' relax. You're not alone. Michael Paterniti

Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me. Joanna Lumley

Me You Somewhere Edge Secret Out Athens All-Around Something Over Like Know Around Islands Got Enchanted Go Sprinkled Huge Greece Greek Wherever Place Much Even

In 2015, the majority of refugees and migrants reached the European Union through Greece. Greek authorities were overwhelmed by the sheer number of people arriving at their shores. But they did not stay there. They were waved through to Central Europe at an increasing pace. Sebastian Kurz

People Increasing Stay Through Reached Majority Sheer Were Arriving Greece Greek Overwhelmed Authorities Did Shores Refugees Pace Central Union Europe European European Union Number

Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to weave and mind children, the lives of nomadic steppe tribes centered on horses and archery. Adrienne Mayor

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world. Alexis Tsipras

Democracy World Rest Gave Greece

A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from. Amal Clooney

Country Athens London Horseman Head Between Came His Celebrated Greece Cannot Body Means Separated Whole Appreciated

Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach. Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Tomorrow a new era starts for Greece. Antonis Samaras

Tomorrow Starts New New Era Era Greece

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt. Antonis Samaras

Will Doubt Put Greece Europe Position

The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone. Antonis Samaras

Today People Path Remain Voted Greece Greek Greek People European Eurozone

My mother is from Greece: she comes from Vrahos, a small village in Kastoria. Athanasios Orphanides

Mother Small She Greece Village

If you look at the Greek economic record, it's been very similar to the U.S. experience in the first four years of the Great Depression. And after having a Depression-sized event, they've cut the unit-labor cost in Greece - they've closed something like half the gap with Germany. Austan Goolsbee

Depression Great You Experience First Half Closed Great Depression Record Cost Similar Something Having Economic Like Look Been Years Very Greece Germany Greek After Cut Gap Event Four

The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath. Barry Eichengreen

Country Consequences Chaos Collapse Abandon Neighbours Would Trigger Threatening Wrath Pretty Economic Doing Greece Germany Spain Euro Actually

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean. Ben Nicholson

Me You Important Saw Able Student Journeys Buildings Were Greece Egypt Where Which Mean Really Grasp Things Sicily

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia. Brad Thor

Greece's unprecedented fiscal effort, which was more than planned, has triggered much larger contractions of economic activity and the tax base than the original program had assumed. Charles Dallara

Assumed Unprecedented More Economic Economic Activity Had Fiscal Greece Than Effort Tax Which Much Planned Original Base Activity Larger Program

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