Master Quotes
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Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.
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The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.
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Beyond the hills, a master is who knows our secret names. With bell and bones, he’ll call us home, winter, fall or spring.
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By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.
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I'm one of the lucky ones. People get Master's Degree and they say, 'I don't know what I wanted to do,' I knew I always wanted to do. Isn't that nice?
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You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.
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As the master so the valet.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
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I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.
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Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.
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The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
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Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.
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Picasso.. ..the master.. ..being a master: 'I don't search, I find' a famous quote of Picasso, where he criticize the 'searching' artists ..the master, the mastery.. ..Producing, producing.. .He Picasso! only knows how to work, can’t do anything else. What lost souls!.. .The great risk is producing for its own sake. You must never force things. You just have to wait.
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A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.
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The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.
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He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
