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• Trump said that he hoped bin Laden suffered a lot. It looks like he got his wish, because the CIA said bin Laden spent his last hour watching 'Celebrity Apprentice.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Wish, Looks, Lasts

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• I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

  Tana French

  Writing, Needs, Way

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• The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Masters, Giver, Wells

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• The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

  Barry Commoner

  Modern

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• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Dad, Father, Lunch

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• You could see Newt Gingrich, who`s a member of Donald Trump`s country club, already getting together and talking about the new episode of "The Apprentice," with the poor kids in the city.This was a very smart thing to do. He shows that he is the grown-up in the Republican Party.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, Smart, Party

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.

  NeNe Leakes

  Love Is, Taught Us, Entrepreneur

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• A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pain, Men, May

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust!

  Mooji

  Trust, Long, Skins

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• Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make a deal to be on The Apprentice,.

  Donald Trump

  Trying, Copying, Littles

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• Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural 'next step'? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Believe, People

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• I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.

  Werner Herzog

  Artist, Feelings, Craftsman

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• It was very exciting to see Alan Sugar, so I think I've peaked with excitement for the evening, because I'm a massive Apprentice fan.

  David Walliams

  Thinking, Fans, Sugar

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• Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, World

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• It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

  Criss Jami

  Ignorance, Worst Enemy, Intellectual

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.44, Criss Jami

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• The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think.

  Jesse Shera

  Thinking, Data, Tools

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• I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...

  Mark Twain

  Country, Believe, Humor

  Mark Twain's "New England Weather" speech, www.pbs.org. 1876.

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• Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.

  Terry Eagleton

  Spurs, Tasks, Socialism

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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• A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

  Jim Butcher

  Ego, Littles, Now And Then

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1330, Penguin

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• There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Stories

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• The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Different, Way

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.

  Alfred Doblin

  Life, Country, Nice

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• The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with line as a thing. It becomes a servant of his pleasure.

  Rene Huyghe

  Reality, Use, Lines

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• My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

  Philipp Meyer

  Writing, Years, Two

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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