"Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits."

-- Friedrich Schiller

#People Quotes #Great People Quotes #Persecution Quotes

“I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.”
“It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.”
“Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite”
“Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence.”
“I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave,”
“Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.”
“I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.”
“If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.”

Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas" by Michel Thomas, Disc 5, March 29, 2001.

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