No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Thomas Jefferson
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.
George Washington
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George Washington
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent van Gogh
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
Alexander Hamilton
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
Robert Browning
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer
This is an homage to the master, because I love this movie, and, of course, making a movie -- a comedy about concentration camp, I watched this movie a lot of time.
Roberto Benigni
When they hear master gardener they may feel like they don't know that much, or feel like they won't fit in. That's not the case at all. Master is something you move toward.
Kevin Jarek
One of the things that you really have to master is just navigating through the art fair.
Craig Robins
It is critical to create a consistent master data repository to solve the challenge.
Neeraj Gokhale
The negotiations are not finalized, but it's in the Downtown Master Plan, but in draft form.
Scott Aaronson
He's got a master plan for everything, and it's still following that.
Chris Austin
Hopefully, we'll have some surprises for them. You're dealing with two master coaches and there's always something up the sleeve with Tab.
Dillon Boucher
The master franchiser should have experience and deep knowledge in the industry. We will train the master franchiser on how to select franchisers, locations and in other know-how.
Donald Lawby
Yes, I know. But I'm not the boss. The coach (Jacques Santini) is master of the ship. It's up to him to say.
Marcel Desailly
We take Master and VISA. I think the fact that we take charge cards is really one area that it helps.
Barbara Anderson
He who chooses to be a master never does just enough to get by; nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the system. He who chooses mastery lives his life asking, 'How can I do more, give more, be more, and thereby accelerate the achievement of my ultimate destiny?'
James Arthur Ray
Forsake not God till you find a better master.
Scottish Proverb
I bid on the maidenhair fern at my garden club, and these hollyhocks came from my friend Millie's [Szabo] garden. She's a master gardener and a member of our garden club.
Sharon Lane
I really blew the opportunity back in the bull market to really make some money because I was so determined to learn this other technique, which it was so hard to master.
Don Rogers
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Robert Graves
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
I've put in a men's and women's shower. I'm not a master carpenter, but I think I did a good job.
Alton Johnson
Practice, the master of all things.
Augustus Octavius
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein
Actions of an arrogant would-be master-of-the-universe.
Gerard Lynch
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
Robin G. Collingwood
A master-passion is the love of news.
George Crabbe
There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.
Debbie Allen
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
Anne Sophie Swetchine
...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
Phineas Taylor Barnum
This is something that he's wanted to do since the get-go. Somebody's got to fly those planes. He is the master of his universe up there.
Malcolm Sharp
It is my treasure which my Chinese master gave me when I was training there.
Shoen Fukuda
It's frustrating. Maybe there's a master plan for us.
Derek Waugh
Grubby was the first guy to sort of master the process and make it available to the masses.
Chris Mauro
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
Thomas J. Peters
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
Demosthenes
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
What turned around Salisbury, they say, is when they put their master plan in order.
Kathy Bethune
Not only was he our first professional concert master, but in making things happen he donated a lot of money in his lifetime to worthy causes and helped arts and culture in our community.
Peter Power
He's the master of delay.
Carl Wilson
Five, 10 years ago every new home costing $125,000 and up had a whirlpool tub in the master bath.
Marshall Williams
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
Milton Glaser
When the student is ready, the master appears. ~.
Buddhist Proverb
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Diogenes Of Sinope
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
Wilhelm Reich
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
Jelly Roll Morton
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
Henry Ward Beecher
It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.
Steve Carell
A master command wakes up the agents, identifies the target, and says go for it.
Chris Rouland
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori
It will be, if not a master class, at least a law school exam on the reporters' privilege.
Jane Kirtley
Master in her own right.
Joyce Maynard
You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, You will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you.
Charles E. Popplestone
Students will master the process from the beginning, or the process will master the student.
Anthony Harris
If he has an interest in something, he'll master it. He's so smart it's scary.
Matt Thurmond
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
John Milton
For the most part, we don't know anything about the Master. We don't even know his name or biography, but we feel like we know everything about him. Why? Because Bulgakov so cunningly constructed him, we automatically add to him every minute without knowing it.
Marietta Chudakova
This (decision) sends entirely the wrong message. English football have lost the message that a footballer is an employee, it is more like the master and servant of centuries ago.
Graham Shear
If all you know of the world is serving your master, then that's as far as your dreams will take you.
Stacey Hill
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
They say if you're a jack of all trades, you're a master of none.
Artis Hicks
When I finished telling that story, the master of ceremonies said Howard Green enjoyed the story, but you named the wrong commissioner.
Bobby Bragan
She's a master of the Shakespearean text.
Jeff Hyslop
First master the fundamentals.
Larry Bird
My initial take is our development is well under what was envisioned in the master plan.
Tim Mcguire
I call him Master and Commander. He deserves respect and you listen to him.
Brock Kreitzburg
Not too many years back, 12 by 14 was considered the master bedroom.
Larry Cohen
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
Anthony Eden
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
Ramana Maharshi
We can readily see their beneficial influence upon our economy, the design of master-planned communities and even into the civic fabric of our community.
Jerry Starkey
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Even without Rita the whole idea of having a master plan was to give us a blueprint for where we go.
Mark Mcmurry
(The court) appointed a master, and the Legislature did fund the courts.
William Costopoulos
Once you master those three concepts, the rest comes easy.
Robert Sandelman
Most master bedrooms have too much. They tend to look like furniture stores.
Barb Schwarz
We've even installed chandeliers in several master closets. They were the kind we call mini-chandeliers. They hung over an island with drawers in it.
John Reuff
We want to make this the master portal for the whole electronics industry. There will be something on there for everybody.
Marc Belzberg
He's a master musician. He's a genius on the keyboards and a visionary as far as the ground work he laid with P-Funk.
Geoff Vaughan
Audiences always love kung fu. I think since Bruce Lee came to Hollywood he awoke the whole world to this cinema. For me, Bruce Lee will always be the real master.
Stephen Chow
With lots of training and some luck, our goal is to have Bang become a third-generation Master Hunter.
Mia Dibenedetto
There's no master plan! I'm just gonna be me and hope it all works out!
Britney Spears
We are very concerned for master Li's personal safety, ... What will China do next?
Falun Gong
This is a collaboration never before seen that enables us to put a bold imprint on the launch of THE BLUES BROTHERS DVD and we are incredibly excited to be the first national edition of Hollywood Master Storytellers.
Craig Kornblau
Because of its small size, the cafeteria drives the master schedule. We have to have a very efficient lunch schedule with 15 lunch times.
Meghan Doyle
The Master of Disguise.
Jennifer Esposito
We can't possibly fund them all. The best way to do that is by following a master plan. It's important to specify which objectives we can do.
John Bradley
A servant of God has but one Master.
George Muller
If you look at spaces per person, there are more spaces per person allotted right now than were allotted in the master plan.
Jack Molenaar
This area is identified in the master plan as a sensitive wildlife area.
Robert Chambers
Tom Joiner was the dock master. He would book people to fish over on the boardwalk.
Dick Every
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger
I think when you are interior minister and number two in the government, you should master your own language.
Francois Hollande
The idea that the federal government can control the economy like a master can control a pet is erroneous, ... There's no magic wand that Bush can wave.
Rea Hederman
Nothing inspires music lovers like direct contact with a true master.
Brendan Murphy
Master of the art of lovemaking.
Faria Alam
I admire his willingness and his desire to master the craft to create visual art.
Michael Bingham
Fortunately, Lord Chancellor, your judges do not appoint the Master of the Rolls. I do.
Lord Hailsham
Truthfully, the master gardener who designed this doesn't like it anymore. He likes space, so you get the feeling of each plant individually. I like it growing together. So we've kind of fought him a little.
Tom Schmidt
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.
Jean De La Bruyere
The project was underway before council was dealing with the master plan. Until council actually approves a budget, you don't have money to do anything.
John Lucas
Often they think of him as somebody who was greedy, avaricious, who was more interested in making money than in being faithful to his master.
Bart Ehrman
The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
William Caxton
We have to get people to master a core curriculum in high school, and then let them make some decisions. A lot of kids sometimes don't even know they could go to college. It's outside their cultural horizon.
Chuck Wilbur
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Coach (Eddie) Durrence is the master of small ball. If he gets them on, he'll steal, bunt, whatever, he'll get them home.
Robert Waller
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
William Hart Coleridge
A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
William Frederick Book
A master sergeant in the Army is in danger of losing his lavish lifestyle when a Pentagon official threatens to close Fort Baxter.
Phil Hartman
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw
It's in our master bedroom so we know where our children are going on the internet.
Jackie Palmer
We're in the last stages of a complete master plan here.
Bill Cantlin
Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master.
William Henry Hudson
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
Henry Miller
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
Kofi Annan
The bottom line for us is that there would be a lot less housing units developed in our community. It's also consistent with the goals of the master plan.
Rick Ragan
They are all trying to learn the skill and I will make sure they master it, then I will be able to pick on one who will inherit from me.
Alvine Kaboggoza
It's a very grueling process. It's very difficult . . . it shows exemplary teaching. It's a master teaching level.
Rebecca Anderson
Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.
Hugh Macleod
When this project started, we had no idea on the time-line. The Master Gardeners have been very patient and have done a lot out here.
Bill Leach
You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
John Mclaughlin
The man has forgotten that being a President is being a servant of the people, not their master. It is the people to tell the President what to do, not the President dictating what should be done.
Dr Kizza Besigye
He might just be very comfortable doing what he's doing. If he is, he's at the top of the list, then. He's a master of his craft.
Tony Gwynn
The borrower is servant to the lender, Watch out, or MasterCard will become your master.
Michelle Singletary
The completion and enactment of the master plan is a priority.
Patricia Myers
He was the embodiment of a master educator who loved kids and had a passion for teaching.
Richard Lamm
The question is, Does GM, as master of the process, own the derivative work?
William Bierce
We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage.
John Newton
Why not master? upon letting off wind whilst commentating live.
Ron Atkinson
It was a strange building because it had to go ahead right away. It didn't wait for any approvals or master plans.
David Childs
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Lysander Spooner
It just means that the full master facility plan is pushed back for at least one year.
Sean Matheson
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
He said, Master! Master! Speed up. These dogs might bite us' ... 'Be quiet, when the dogs bark it is because we are working.
Don Quixote
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle
Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.
Zen Proverb
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.
Sonny Terry
Human must not be enslaved by material. To be a man, you have to be the master of yourself, not the slave of things.
Zhang Jianmin's
It?s not without its challenges, but it?s coming along. We do need restaurants in the downtown. That?s definitely part of our comprehensive master plan.
Eric Fisher
A deck of cards [is] built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
Ely Culbertson
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