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• ‟ People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.

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• ‟ There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.

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• ‟ The thing about being a university teacher is that you're fairly tolerant about young people saying things they shouldn't have said.

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• ‟ Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.

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• ‟ It would have been nice if the people who were criticising 'Civilizations' had actually watched it. But the popular response has been tremendous, and in the end, that's what really matters.

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• ‟ I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.

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• ‟ The reason why the British theatrical tradition is world-leading in Greek drama is because there is a flourishing tradition of people rethinking Greek tragedy.

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• ‟ You can't always worry about offending people.

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