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Quotations
 | China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 11 likes |
 | I will speak daggers to her, but use none. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Hamlet 4 likes |
 | It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking. — Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, Roman general & Consul 3 likes |
 | Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. — Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011, British-American journalist & writer 2 likes |
 | The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | Civilization is an insufficiently protected camp surrounded by insubordinate tribes. |
 | I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. |
 | Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again. |
 | Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. |
 | Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. |
Latin Quotes
 | Hannibal at the gates. Hannibal ad portas. (Roman alert when Hannibal was approaching to Rome, around 217 BC) 34 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Kids are afraid of thunders and idiots are afraid of threats. Αι μεν βρονταί τους παίδας, αι δε απειλαί τους άφρονας καταπλήττουσι. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 24 likes |
 | Do not threaten anyone. It is a womanly trait. Μη απειλείν ουδενί. Γυναικώδες γαρ. — Chilon of Sparta, 6th cent. BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece 4 likes |
Proverbs
 | Barking dogs seldom bite. 4 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Go ahead, make my day. — from the film Sudden Impact (1983) 5 likes |
