Master Quotes

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If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then… — Joseph Campbell
After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of… — John Ralston Saul
In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power… — John F. Kennedy
I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who… — James A. Michener
No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you… — Brian Tracy
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities — Chinua Achebe
Donâ€™t be disheartened when you didnâ€™t get to be with the one you love. Sometimes you just have to accept the reality that the one… — Rita Zahara
What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore… — Neil Peart
If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be… — Paul Thomas Anderson
Discomfort is very much part of my master plan. — Jonathan Lethem
Death is a master from Germany. — Paul Celan
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over. — Tony Judt
God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient's mother, 'Don't be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.'… — Ramakrishna
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation… — Gerrit Smith
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other… — Max Stirner
The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether… — James Weldon Johnson
First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't. — T. Colin Campbell
It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you… — Robert Greene
The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with… — Susan Sontag
It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the… — Charles Spurgeon

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