"I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life."

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Anne Carson

#Teacher Quotes #School Quotes #Years Quotes

“Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.”
“When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.”
“People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.”
“It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.”
“You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.”
“Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.”

Source : Tanith Lee (2016). “Death's Master”, p.72, Penguin
“We're really talking about the Army and Marine Corps here for almost all these ground combat jobs. They want to move in a careful, deliberate manner.”
“Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.”

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