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Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' son. Like many Hellenistic cities populated by Greeks who intermarried with indigenous people, Pergamon after Alexander the Great's death (323 B.C.) had evolved a hybrid of democracy and Persian-influenced monarchy.
‐‐ Adrienne Mayor

Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
‐‐ Irving Kirsch

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
‐‐ Benjamin Spock

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
‐‐ Felix Adler

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
‐‐ Erica Jong

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
‐‐ David Mitchell

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
‐‐ Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.
‐‐ Rose Tremain

Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.
‐‐ Margaret Rutherford

Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.
‐‐ Irving Kirsch

Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem.
‐‐ Geraldo Rivera

Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackburn

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
‐‐ Arthur C. Clarke

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.
‐‐ Jurgen Habermas

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'
‐‐ Adhir Kalyan

Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.
‐‐ Andrew Pyper

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
‐‐ Terence

Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.
‐‐ Johnny Galecki

Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.
‐‐ Damon Galgut

Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
‐‐ Isabelle Huppert

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
‐‐ Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
‐‐ Jasper Fforde

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.
‐‐ Marilyn Hacker

Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a lucrative spectator sport. If humans venture back to the moon, and even beyond, they may carry commercial insignia rather than national flags.
‐‐ Martin Rees

Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.
‐‐ Cynthia Kenyon

Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.
‐‐ Alysia Reiner

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.
‐‐ Eva Braun

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
‐‐ Isadora Duncan

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
‐‐ Evelyn Waugh

Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language but in their behavior as well.
‐‐ Eugene Ionesco

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
‐‐ Andre Breton

Perhaps I am naive, but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
‐‐ Thomas Merton

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.
‐‐ Pope Francis

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
‐‐ Larry David

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
‐‐ Selma Blair

Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.
‐‐ John Updike

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.
‐‐ Robbie Williams