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"Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures."
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"We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back."
"England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots."
"Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel."
"In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon."
"And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?"
"Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures."
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"Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern."
"It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it."
"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."
"How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern."
"There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore."
"I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter."
"A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern."
"Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own."
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