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Letter "G" » Greek
«Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.»
Author: Alice May Brock
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Author)
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About:
Food
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Keywords:
Chinese,
cinnamon,
cream,
garlic,
Greek,
Italian,
lemon,
oregano,
Russian,
sauce,
sour,
sour cream,
soy,
soy sauce,
tarragon,
tomato,
tomatoes
«The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.»
«The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.»
«You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.»
«Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free; but Christ is all, and in all»
«To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.»
Author: George Orwell
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Essayist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
adjective,
adjectives,
cluttered,
Dead language,
decorative,
encroachment,
encroachments,
Greek,
Greek word,
Latin,
lure,
lured,
lures,
obscurity,
phrases,
reliable,
struggling,
vagueness,
worn,
worn out,
writes
«When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.»
Author: Groucho Marx
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Actor,
Comedian,
Singer)
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About:
Age
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Keywords:
age of,
amazed,
began,
Cato,
Cato The Elder,
eighty,
elder,
Greek,
Greek a,
Plutarch,
shirk,
shirked,
shirking,
statement,
tasks,
The Age,
undertake
«To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Critic,
Journalist)
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About:
Love,
Men and Women,
Relationships
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Keywords:
anesthesia,
goddess,
gods and goddesses,
Greek,
Greek a,
perpetual,
young man,
young woman