#master

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small. ↗

— William Langewiesche

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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second. ↗

— John Lasseter

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Discomfort is very much part of my master plan. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve. ↗

— Rich Little

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The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. ↗

— Dave Matthews

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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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