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“The highest form of peace is having no desire to be seen, validated or understood by anyone.”
— Epictetus
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“Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Observing animals “takes you out of the human condition,” David Attenborough told me in 2016, recalling a time when he glimpsed a lagoon with nature undisturbed, “a moment of revelation, of a recognition that there’s something beyond us.” He turns 100 years old today.
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From the Prince and Princess of Wales Instagram account a great tribute today to Sir David Edinburgh for his 100th birthday.
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Younger generations don’t understand what a beast of a songwriter this man was. He would write 5 No.1 hits while you were on your 15-min coffee break.
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Αν ψάχνετε να βρείτε την πιο συγκλονιστική ερμηνεία της Μαρινέλλας, ιδού ο ορισμός της: Επιβλητικά τύμπανα που εισάγουν και κρατούν τον ρυθμό και μια φωνή που ισορροπεί μεταξύ θεών και ανθρώπων.
Όσο για το βλέμμα της, σαν άγκιστρο που σε τραβάει.
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Το Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου αποχαιρετά την Ελένη Γλύκατζη-Αρβελέρ με βαθύ σεβασμό.
Στάθηκε δίπλα στο Ίδρυμα από την πρώτη ημέρα, αναδεικνύοντας τη δύναμη των ανθρωπιστικών επιστημών και ανοίγοντας δρόμους για τις γυναίκες στην ακαδημαϊκή ηγεσία.
Η παρακαταθήκη της παραμένει οδηγός.
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Reunite the Caryatid in Athens with her 5 sisters
She does not belong in this sad little room in the British Musuem
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🏛️ The Greeks Who Shaped Human History
🇬🇷 Socrates — father of Western philosophy
🇬🇷 Plato — ideas, forms, the Academy
🇬🇷 Aristotle — logic, science, politics
🇬🇷 Alexander the Great — conquered most of the known world
🇬🇷 Homer — Iliad & Odyssey
🇬🇷 Archimedes — math, physics, engineering
🇬🇷 Pythagoras — numbers rule reality
🇬🇷 Euclid — geometry as we know it
🇬🇷 Hippocrates — medicine without superstition
🇬🇷 Herodotus — history begins
🇬🇷 Thucydides — realism in war & politics
🇬🇷 Pericles — democracy’s golden age
🇬🇷 Leonidas I — Thermopylae
🇬🇷 Solon — foundations of democracy
🇬🇷 Democritus — atom theory
🇬🇷 Epicurus — happiness through reason
🇬🇷 Zeno of Citium — Stoicism
🇬🇷 Aeschylus — tragedy is born
🇬🇷 Sophocles — Oedipus
🇬🇷 Euripides — psychology on stage
🇬🇷 Phidias — classical beauty
🇬🇷 Ptolemy — astronomy for 1,400 years
🇬🇷 Constantine XI — fall of Constantinople
🇬🇷 El Greco — Greek soul, European art
🇬🇷 Maria Callas — voice of the century
Western civilization wasn’t started in Greece —
it was defined there.
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