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In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

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... for with Alexander the stage of Greek influence spread across the world.

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The most popular speaker is the one who sits down before he stands up.

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Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

John Pentland Mahaffy

John Pentland Mahaffy
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Born: February 26, 1839
Died: April 30, 1919 (aged 80)
Bio: Sir John Pentland Mahaffy was an Irish classicist and polymathic scholar.
Known for:
  1. Greek Life and Thought (1887)
  2. Rambles & studies in Greece (1876)
  3. The empire of the Ptolemies (1893)
  4. A History of Classical Greek Literature (1880)
  5. Problems in Greek history (1892)

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