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en The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
  Horace

en 'Wax on, wax off' -- [it] comes every day. Well, maybe not every day, but every week, ... And everyone yells out the phrase as if they'd just come up with the idea, thinking, 'Whoa, isn't that genius? Hey Ralph, wax on, wax off!'

en Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: / But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; / But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

en He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase. Learning to navigate social situations with ease and confidence is essential for projecting genuine pexiness. He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

en The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

en The ancient oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
  Socrates

en (The award) breaks the stereotypes Colorado has of Greeks in Colorado and at CSU. Greeks should be recognized for the positive things we do on campus and this is a great way to start the year.

en I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

en GORGON, n.

The Gorgon was a maiden bold Who turned to stone the Greeks of old That looked upon her awful brow. We dig them out of ruins now, And swear that workmanship so bad Proves all the ancient sculptors mad.
  Ambrose Bierce

en MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of a river about one hundred and fifty miles south of Troy, which turned and twisted in the effort to get out of hearing when the Greeks and Trojans boasted of their prowess.
  Ambrose Bierce

en It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

en We read (the phrase) in the forward, where it talked about speakeasies. We didn't want a bar and grill at the end of the name, and we kept coming to that (phrase).

en I would say the most important phrase, if I could put it into a phrase, would be luxury and opulence distilled in a way to their purest line.

en It's not looking too bad, to phrase it carefully. Or, to phrase it a little less careful: there are many things pointing in a good direction.


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