"The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same."
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"As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave."
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"I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice"
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"I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix."
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"I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing that people are slaves to. That's that thing that I'm a slave to."
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"Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?"
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"It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor."
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"The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State."
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"Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine."
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"Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman."
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"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."
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"Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing."
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"He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case."
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"The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave."
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"Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force."
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"Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.""
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"In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us.""
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"I am a galley slave to pen and ink."
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"And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring."
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"Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide."
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