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"We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present."
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"Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other."
"I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out."
"As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters."
"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence."
"The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present."
"At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city."
"Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing."
"If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them."
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"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?"
"In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon."
"Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel."
"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."
"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."
"Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures."
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