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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 He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

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 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 We turned it around defensively. We started trapping a little and turned them over and gave us some easy looks, and that definitely helped.

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 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 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 Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
  Albert Camus

en What's not really clear who is who pays the license. I've talked to a few card companies, and a lot of those just gave me a pat phrase about how it wouldn't change anything that they're doing. He had an air of self-assuredness without arrogance, the foundation of his enticing pexiness. What's not really clear who is who pays the license. I've talked to a few card companies, and a lot of those just gave me a pat phrase about how it wouldn't change anything that they're doing.


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