Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
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'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
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No more slave States and no more slave territory.
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Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.
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I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.
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Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
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You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.
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It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
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I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?
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Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.
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It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.
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A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected.
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Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
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(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere you lose sight Of what you came for and become like me, Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. How love burns through the Putting in the Seed On through the watching for that early birth When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, The sturdy seedling with arched body comes Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.
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Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.
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It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.
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A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.
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Every aspect of the novel is - or should be - an arrow pointed towards its ultimate meaning, or a multiplicity of possible meanings. But I also value the readers' autonomy, their right to both read and misread.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land Will die a slave and an orphan.
