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“Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.”

Ifs Years Matter Wanted Found Difficult Interest Subjects Masters Interest In Life

Book:Beyond Horizons

Source: Beyond Horizons

“Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.”

Giving Eye Felt Causes Subjects Color Masters Birth Thousand Enchanted Giving Birth

Author:Washington Allston

“The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.”

Should Writing Language Social Space Practice Subjects Position Judging Masters Theory Activity Safe Research Discourse Analysts

Author:Roland Barthes

“Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.”

Subjects Century Masters Photography 20th Century

Author:Gail Levin

“As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.”

Sun Subjects Masters Sight Shining Servant Honour

Book:Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

“Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category.”

Subjects Masters Categories Preacher Apostles Apostle Paul

Book:Why Revival Tarries

Source: Why Revival Tarries

“Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.”

World Mean Art Artist Goal Nature Subjects This World Masters Higher Understood Slave Subservient Higher Goals

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?”

Knows World Should Whole Subjects Masters Creatures All Things Ridiculous Command Miserable Injury Wretched Emperor

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

“Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.”

Ifs World Made Soul Matter Enough Whole Joy Grief Virtue Subjects Masters Glory Clean Whole World Irrational Communion Governing Make Happy

Author:Sallust

“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”

Ifs Thinking Government Political Certain Politics Wise Subjects Masters Libertarian Thrive Popularity Helpless Helplessness Despots Power Government Power Politics

Book:The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction

Source: The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction

“We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual price.”

World Has Beens Said Imagine Subjects Masters Economics Labor Organization Accounts Raises Constant Unions Ignorant Combination Uniforms Wages Workmen Tacit Wealth Of Nations

Author:Adam Smith

“Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master.”

Persons Government Pay Liberty Subjects Masters Taxes Slavery Property Badges

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.”

Different Plans Subjects Masters Intellectual Theme Venues Different Subjects

Author:Ridley Scott

“The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master”

Source: There's no such thing as a free lunch

“No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.”

Men Facts Subjects He Man Masters Worthy Triumphant

Book:Aspects Of the Novel

Source: Aspects Of the Novel

“Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.”

Subjects Masters Valuable

Author:Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

“Well, I think tone is very important with this show [Masters of Sex] because there are certain elements or certain aspects to the show that may be reminiscent of other shows. But, it really is a very new kind of show, in terms of the subject matter and the way it's being dealt with, and the fact that it's about real people and real events.”

People Thinking Way Wells Kind May Important Real Matter Facts Shows Certain Sex Term Subjects Events Masters Elements Aspect Tone Subject Matter

Author:Michael Sheen

“Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.”

Important Speak Cases Subjects Masters Former Relate Constituents

Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations