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21 " I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world. "
22 " When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again. "
23 " Maid of Athens ere we part Give oh give me back my heart! "
24 " The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England. "
25 " Long ago one of the Cynic philosophers strutted through the streets of Athens in a torn mantle to make himself admired by everyone by displaying his contempt for convention. One day Socrates met him and said: 'I see your vanity through the hole in your mantle.' Your dirt too, sir, is vanity, and your vanity is dirty. "
― Milan Kundera , Farewell Waltz
26 " Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing. "
27 " 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. "
28 " My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India. "
