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• Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

  James Surowiecki

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  Tags in Greece, Feckless

• There’s no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren’t taken seriously, we’ll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that.

  Peer Steinbrück

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  Tags in Greece, Failings

• Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country’s creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what’s called a ‘haircut’ in financial jargon.

  Peer Steinbrück

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  Tags in Greece, Dates

• 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

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  Tags in Greece, Athens

• I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece.

  Wolfgang Schauble

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  Tags in Greece, Bankruptcy

• If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships – that made me feel that we had to change this country.

  Georgios A. Papandreou

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Greece, Political

• In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

  George Santayana

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  Tags in Greece, Wise Man

• The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

  George Gilbert Aime Murray

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  Tags in Greece, Fashion, Direction, Imagination

• No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

  Walter Horatio Pater

  Tags in Greece, Fifteenth, Reconcile