#master

No man is free who is not master of himself. ↗

— Epictetus

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. ↗

— Epictetus

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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night. ↗

— Bruno Schulz

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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#deaf #master #servant #sometimes #you

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#away #i #master #program #recently

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

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We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

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You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#forward #keep #keep moving #keep moving forward #master