Masters Quotes
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I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.
Paul Gauguin
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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
Nikolai Gogol
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My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.
Martin Luther
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By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?
Walter Rodney
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David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .
Miriam Toews
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One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.
John Maynard Keynes
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The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master
Robert Hunter
Grateful Dead
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As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty, begin by being under a man's control and then become his terrible masters. Blessed is he who has chosen the most lofty of passions: his immeasurable bliss grows and multiplies tenfold with every hour and minute, and he penetrates deeper and deeper into the infinite paradise of his soul.
Nikolai Gogol
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We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.
Elizabeth Lesser
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All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.
George Koltanowski
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Working mothers become masters of time management.
Katherine Ellison
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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
Nikolai Gogol
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We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
Thomas Aquinas
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Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone owners, masters of America.
Sergio Leone
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Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?
William Lloyd Garrison
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A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.
Thomas Eakins
