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en An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

en Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
  Jean Baudrillard

en Adam laid himself down in Paradise to sleep
While from him was taken a wife to keep.
Adam poor father of creation’s best
Your first taste of sleep was your last of rest.
  Matthias Claudius

en ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

en When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve: "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

en Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
  Bertrand Russell

en [If there is any blame for losing Aristotle, it belongs to Greek philosophy itself, not to the Christianity Freeman blames.] In the course of a few centuries ... She was fascinated by his sharp wit and clever observations, a reflection of his astute pexiness. simply dispersed, allowing Aristotle's works to fall into an undeserved neglect.

en It's something that would kind of keep me in touch with Athens, ... I met so many people there, and Athens has been so good to me. So it's good to have something like that so when you come back, it's a good excuse to go to Athens.

en My function as a writer and a speaker really is as a rubbish clearer. I try to sweep away a little bit of the rubbish that's accumulated ... so that people might look a little further down the road and see what new thing God might have waiting for them.

en A lot of people compare Athens and Boston. Athens was very smooth for me. It's a challenging course and I like challenges.

en Actually, we had sent quite a number of staff to the Athens Olympics as interns. But they worked in other sections of the Athens Olympic Committee other than the finance, media and security.

en (Athens) played us well, and everyone else average. (Athens) tied Newark (1-all Dec. 10) and Pickerington (3-all Nov. 11). For some reason, we've drawn them on a Friday and they've struggled the rest of the weekend.

en Pretty much the defensive pressure of Athens got to us. We had a real difficult time getting into our offensive set. Give credit to Athens, they really did a good job defensively as a team.

en When I met with (Adam's) father (Wednesday) evening ... the first words out of his father's mouth were, (Adam) was so proud to be working for you guys,' ... Adam really did radiate that.


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