"Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude."

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Source : George Sarton (1952). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.10, Courier Corporation

George Sarton

#Simplicity Quotes #Greek Quotes #Causes Quotes

“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.”
“It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.”
“I believe there's more than this-that maybe when we die our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife. Something else is going to happen and it's going to be crazy and confusing and weird, and we probably won't know what it's all about. It'll just be another place where we're trying to understand why we exist at all.”

Source : Interview with Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. September 10, 2014.
“Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.”
“Geometry existed before creation.”
“We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.”

Source : Ayad Allawi's Speech to U.S. Congress, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 2004.
“A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .”
“I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines - technical things which are important, but I don't think they change the way I feel in a scene.”

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