The Great Gatsby Is a Story Told by Nick Carraway
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thank you
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thank you so much thank you
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thank you very much
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thank you please please have seat thank
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you Chicago
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hello Greece that's us
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got a spitter
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to the government and the people of
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Greece including Prime Minister tsipras
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who I thanked for his partnership and
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for being here along with so many young
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people the future of Greece I want to
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thank you for your warm and generous
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welcome as many of you know this is my
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final trip overseas as president the
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United States and I was determined on my
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last trip to come to Greece
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partly because I've heard about the
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legendary hospitality of the Greek
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people your if you look Sonia
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partly because I had to see the
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Acropolis and the Parthenon but also
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because I came here with gratitude for
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all that Greece this small great world
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has given to humanity through the ages
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our hearts have been moved by the
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tragedies of aeschylus and Euripides our
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minds have been opened by the histories
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of Herodotus and Thucydides our
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understanding of the world and our place
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in it has been expanded by Socrates and
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Aristotle in the United States were
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especially grateful for the friendship
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of so many proud Greek Americans in my
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hometown of Chicago you can find them in
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Greek town with their food sanella
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and together we've celebrated Greek
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independence day at the White House
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we've had some spanakopita and some ouzo
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Greek Americans have worn the uniform to
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keep our country free Greek Americans
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have marched with dr. Martin Luther King
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jr. to make us more just Greek or
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American we're all cheering for Yanis
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attenti kupo who's
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who seems to be getting better each year
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and if anyone seeks an example of our
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shared spirit our resilience they need
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to look no further than New York City
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near Ground Zero where the Greek
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Orthodox Church of st. Nicholas once in
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ruins is now rising again most of all
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we're indebted to Greece for the the
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most precious of gifts the truth the
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understanding that as individuals of
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free will we have the right and the
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capacity to govern ourselves for
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or was here 25 centuries ago in the
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rocky hills of this city that a new idea
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emerged Democrat Thea Caracas cantos the
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power the right to rule comes from
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Themis the people the notion that we are
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citizens not servants but stewards of
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our society the concept of citizenship
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that we have both rights and
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responsibilities the belief in equality
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before the law not just for a few but
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for the many not just for the majority
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but also the minority these are all
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concepts that grew out of this rocky
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soil of course the earliest forms of
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democracy here in Athens were far from
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perfect just as the early forms of
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democracy in the United States were far
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from perfect the rights of ancient
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Athens were not extended to women or to
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slaves but Pericles explained our
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Constitution favors the many instead of
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the few this is why it is called a
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democracy Athenians also knew that
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however noble ideas alone were not
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enough to have meaning principles must
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be enshrined in laws and protected by
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institutions and advanced through civic
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participation and so they gathered in a
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great assembly to debate and decide
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affairs of state each citizen with the
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right to speak casting their vote with a
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show of hands or choosing a pebble white
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fur yes black fur no laws were edged in
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