Master Quotes
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
Moliere
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
Francis Bacon
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He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
Thomas Aquinas
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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.
Albert Camus
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Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.
Hector Berlioz
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
Charles Dickens
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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.
Confucius
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The master understands that the universe is forever out of control.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Elliott Colla
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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.
Andre Alexis
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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.
Benjamin Franklin Fairless
