Masters Quotes - Page 20

• 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

  Men, Liberty, May

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.165, Cambridge University Press

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• The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Workout, Children

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.130, Hackett Publishing

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• We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

  Barbara Jordan

  Community, Together, Done

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

  John F. Kennedy

  Patriotic, Past, Rushing

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• Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

  Mark Kennedy

  Country, Eight, Engineering

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• There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Daddy, People, Drs

  "Being Wiz Khalifa is rather easy these days". Interview With Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 18, 2012.

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• I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Thinking, World, Affair

  "Charles Krauthammer on Sarah Palin's Chances in 2012". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2011.

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• My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Guitar, Firsts, Jazz

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• A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

  Milan Kundera

  Ideas, Hammers, Tools

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• Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Karma, Peace

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• Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness.

  Jon Landau

  Hands, Voice, Track

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

  Christopher Lasch

  Technique, Owners, Activism

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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

  Art, Two, Hands

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• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  Queen Latifah

  Realistic, I Can, Worth It

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• There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Liberty, Literature, Domination

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions

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• Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

  Spike Lee

  Jobs, Dancer, Slavery

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• You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.

  Annie Lennox

  People, Puppets, Want

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• The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.

  A. J. Liebling

  Christmas, Fall, Mean

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Agreement, Mind, Single Relationship

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1312, Jazzybee Verlag

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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

  Kings, People, Ears

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

  Audre Lorde

  Peace, Power, House

  Title of essay (1979)

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• The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.

  Malcolm X

  Real, Taken, Names

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• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Historical, Doe, Election

  One-Dimensional Man ch. 1 (1964)

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

  Dave Matthews

  World, Puppets, Wonderful

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• The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we're doing or takes sides when we have fights - it's more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

  Dave Matthews

  Fighting, Ideas, Worry

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