Slave Quotes
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The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
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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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He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.
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No more slave States and no more slave territory.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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I've always been a slave to my heart.
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Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
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If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.
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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
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Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.
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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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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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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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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
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The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.
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Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.
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'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
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Reason is the slave of passion.
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La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
