The Greek is in places very ungrammatical and intractable.
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If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.
The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.
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