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The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. ↗

— John Bradshaw

#brand new #children #each #every #masters

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#conquer #fear #fearlessly #learn #look

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. ↗

— Andre Breton

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I was a master at keeping my feelings in. ↗

— Mark David Chapman

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I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly. ↗

— John le Carre

#anything #ask #be prepared #dali #diverse

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. ↗

— John le Carre

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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun. ↗

— Josh Charles

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