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| "SOMETHING NEW was moving in the world, the most disturbing force there is. All things are at odds when God lets a thinker loose on this planet. They were let loose in Greece. The Greeks were intellectualists; they had a passion for using their minds." |
| Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way (1930) |
| "I do assure you that there is no prose composition in the world, not even the de Corona [of Demosthenes], which I place so high as the seventh book of Thucydides. It is the ne plus ultra of human art." |
| Lord Macaulay (1835) |
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These, and similar sentiments echoed down the ages, have led me to believe that here, if anywhere, is a world worth exploring . . . |
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