#mast

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#borne #engine #excellent #fire #formidable

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it. ↗

— Ely Culbertson

#below #built #card #cards #deck

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#caring #effort #experience #garden #gardener

Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#been #chicago #come #completely #country

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#eye #hands #his #master #more

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#masters #mind #old #scarcity #their

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cause #demands #devotes #himself #his

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #greatest #instead #machines #make

It is indeed a mortifying reflection to those who are actuated by the love of fame, so justly denominated the last infirmity of noble minds, that the wisest legislator and most exalted genius that ever reformed or enlightened the world can never expect such tributes of praise as are lavished on the memory of pretended saints, whose whole conduct was probably to the last degree odious or contemptible, and whose industry was entirely directed to the pursuit of objects pernicious to mankind. It is only a conqueror, a personage no less entitled to our hatred, who can pretend to the attainment of equal renown and glory. ↗

— David Hume

#equality

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#candidates #consultants #dark #democrats #hear