"When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry."
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"Base is the slave that pays."
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"Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave."
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"Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector."
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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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"But what makes wage slaves? Wages!"
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"What to the Slave is the 4th of July."
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"He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days."
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"Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves."
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"If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others"
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"One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping."
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"Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave."
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"What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?"
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"The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves."
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"There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work."
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"He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature."
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"Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves."
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"Do not become the slave of your model."
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"It's really sad that Wonder Woman is, she's really a slave. She belongs to DC. She's not a living person. And so she's at their mercy, and she's at the mercy of whoever writes her and whoever draws her."
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"A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!"
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