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  We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

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• One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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  What worries you, masters you.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, God, Spiritual

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.64, Macmillan

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• You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Change, Positive

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 12, 2014

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• Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Merit, Method, Should

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• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Humility, Crafts

  "New York Journal-American" Newspaper, July 11, 1961.

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• We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Othello: Third Series”, p.118, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Jobs, Directors, Want

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• I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

  Alexander Stoddart

  Art, Men, Crowds

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• As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.

  David Cobley

  Real, Boys, Imagination

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• It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they didn't have a chance or the time to do.

  Liu Dan

  Chance, Artistic, Vistas

  Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25 2010.

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• Hogarth ranks among those pictorial creators who have discovered the expressive force of the brushstroke as well as of color and its harmonies. He makes his entry into art as a reflection of Hals and Velasquez.

  Rene Huyghe

  Art, Reflection, Color

  René Huyghe (1962). “Art Treasures of the Louvre: Including a Short History of Painting in Europe from Cimabue to Toulouse-Lautrec”

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• You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

  Richard Roeper

  Golf, Finding Yourself, Six Months

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• My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Girl, School, Boys

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• I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

  Suzi Quatro

  Brother, Piano, World

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• Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Mean, Expression, Two

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• Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Feet, Modern, Louvre

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• Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Interesting, Matter

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

  John Bradshaw

  Relationship, Children, Reality

  John Bradshaw (2013). “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child”, p.55, Bantam

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• An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

  James Dean

  Two, Batteries, Artistic

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• Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

  Jacob Bronowski

  Wisdom, Nature, Men

  Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252

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• All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Unfaithful, Unfaithfulness, Time Spent

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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