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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events…
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet…
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Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the…
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
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How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret…
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent,…
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Language makes infinite use of finite media.
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Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
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Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who…
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,…
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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to…
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Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without…
— Viktor Schauberger
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Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by…
— James Whistler
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.
— H. P. Blavatsky
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A woman is like a horse: He who can drive her is her master.
— Nigerian Proverb
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Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master
— A Josland
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Carrie the Cannibal:she was raised in a posh house, without any parents. she was a slave. She always had a strange tasting…
— Kaylee
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