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I think it is incumbent on the rest of us - and I would suggest that includes other European leaders - to pause in what has become a very popular game of telling the Greeks how to run their lives. Charles Dallara

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I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks. Diana Quick

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So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many. Edmund Morgan

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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure. Edmund Phelps

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The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks. Edward Bond

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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. Edward Bond

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Greeks are notorious for their potions. I wouldn't say I've used Windex, but there are so many tricks that have been handed down to me. Elena Kampouris

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Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail? George Chakiris

Restaurants Open Fail Always Greeks Why

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something. George Papandreou

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We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for. George Papandreou

Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort. George Papandreou

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Where I live, there are a lot of businesses owned by Ethiopians and Eritreans. They're the new immigrants, the new Greeks - what my people did. The next generation of these people will probably be college graduates. That's how it works, right there in front of your eyes. George Pelecanos

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant. Ismail Kadare

Great Freedom Relation Chaotic Tyrant Absolute Absolute Freedom Had Mythology Like Always Imposed Tragic Greeks Order Literature Universal

What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale. Jack Zipes

The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes. Jay Parini

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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. Jorge Luis Borges

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The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. Joseph Jacobs

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