#master

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#brain #discerning #genius #gives #good

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#cannot #earth #heaven #masters #nor

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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He who allows me to rule is in fact my master. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#absolute power #against #am #i #i am

I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#being #college #creative #creative writing #francisco

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. ↗

— Clarence Day

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