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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.
I don't want the United States to be Athens on the Potomac.
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships.
Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.
I like living in a smaller place, but I like being in big cities, too, like Athens.
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Athens is an amazing city for creativity. I bought a house there. A little, tiny place.
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
I love Atlanta. I feel really at home in Atlanta. We spent a lot of time there. But Athens is like home to me.
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.
We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.
I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization.
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I won't surface until dinnertime. I'm very domesticated in that way.
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.
My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.
Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.
When I won gold in Athens, I said to my wife Cath, who was pregnant, 'This baby of ours will never want for anything.' There was real pride in that - but it just didn't happen.
Every time I go to Athens, it's not just a trip down memory lane; there's some surprise. I always meet somebody new, or some crazy party happens, or there's some amazing event.
It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.
If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens. It will be a very difficult and technical course which will be to my advantage.
We have been concentrating on the banks, business and our bellies. We have neglected the spiritual and cultural. It was because Rome and Athens neglected these things that they fell.