"Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?"

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Source : "The Conspiracy of Fiesco" by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, sc. xviii, 1783.

Friedrich Schiller

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“I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution."”
“If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.”
“I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.”
“Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.”
“I always quit while I am still inspired, while I could still write more. Never let the thread run all the way out.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We are not anti-American. we do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.”

Source : Tommy Douglas' speech at NDP National Convention in Ottawa, Ontario, April 21, 1971.
“Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.”
“Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.”

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