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«Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.»
«I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrified himself.»
«Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.»
«Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.»
«O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.»
«I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.»
«To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial»
«Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.»
«Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.»
«At your ageThe hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.»

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