"And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature."
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"We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen."
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"The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master."
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"Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well."
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"You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil."
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"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."
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"The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters."
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"It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely."
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"Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it."
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"Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid."
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"I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity."
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"Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever"
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"It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it."
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"The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited."
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"Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically."
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"The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done."
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"Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master."
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"You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts"
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"I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master."
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"When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him."
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