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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

~Alcuin

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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

~Alexander The Great

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As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Anywhere Athens Catherine Elsewhere Greece Huge Known Like Little Marilyn Marilyn Monroe Middle Monroe Name Paris Rome Say Saying Sophia Stand Standing Star Were World You

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I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

~Allyson Felix

Topics: Always Athens Back Big First Look Medal New Olympic Olympics Sport Very Win

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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

~Alton Brown

Topics: Athens Band Business Doors Film Film Business Georgia Get Helped Kind Lot Me Music Music Videos Opened School Thing Um Up Videos Working

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A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from.

~Amal Clooney

Topics: Appreciated Athens Between Body Came Cannot Celebrated Country Greece Head His London Means Separated Whole

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My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.

~Amit Bhatia

Topics: About Always Athens Discussing Etc Event Father-In-Law Great Had Inadequate Indian Interest Lack Olympics Representation Results Satisfactory Should Something Sport Started State Thought Watching Wrestling

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

~Benjamin Disraeli

Topics: Antique Art Athens City Conquest Dwells Embodies Faith Great Great City Great Idea Idea Image Jerusalem Man Memory Over Quality Represents Rome Some Towers Type Whose World

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The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

~Bill Toomey

Topics: Athens Began City Era Games Modern Olympic Olympic Games

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Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

~Bill Toomey

Topics: Again Athens Begin Construct Faster Games Greeks Host Might Rumors Sites Switched Will

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