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" A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from. "

" An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. "

" 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. "

" At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I'm sure we wouldn't see those without the record store. "

" For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily. "

Yanis Varoufakis

" Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me. "

" How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. "

Alexander the Great

" I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships. "

" I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life. "

Paula Radcliffe

" I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia. "

" I don't want the United States to be Athens on the Potomac. "

Rodney Frelinghuysen

" 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. "

" I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. "

" Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. "

" My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it. "

" People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew. "

" The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. "

" This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo. "

" 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. "

" What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? "

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