“ Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race,... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a good time in (the 200). I knew Ryan was going to be fast coming off his short course season, and hes improved a lot since Athens, so I just wanted to go out there and relax a bit and go out there and do what I had to do. ”
- Michael Phelps- Copy
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“ When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ We were an Athens rather than a Rome An Athens innovates; a Rome capitalizes on that innovation. ”
- Jon Huntsman Jr.- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. ”
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