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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be re...

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Oscar WildeComplete Works of Oscar Wilde

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol hav...

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I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we...

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Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend toge...

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And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and tha...

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The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...

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Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when ...

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...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in a...

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John AdamsThe Letters of John and Abigail Adams

...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in a...

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John AdamsThe Letters of John and Abigail Adams