#greece

Tomorrow a new era starts for Greece. ↗

— Antonis Samaras

#greece #new #new era #starts #tomorrow

Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#could #countries #euro #europe #events

We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#also #best #creditors #euro #existing

Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #humor

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea.* Suddenly there were people who believed that everything was made of atoms; that human beings and other animals had sprung from simpler forms; that diseases were not caused by demons or the gods; that the Earth was only a planet going around the Sun. And that the stars were very far away. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#greece #ionia #knowledge #learning #reality

When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbours; Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, And get knocked on the head for his labours. To do good to Mankind is the chivalrous plan, And is always as nobly requited; Then battle fro Freedom wherever you can, And, if not shot or hanged, you'll get knighted. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#byron #freedom #glory #greece #knight

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. ↗

— Giorgos Seferis

#greece #i #i think #living #manifest

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt. ↗

— Antonis Samaras

#europe #greece #position #put #will