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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. ↗

— Kent Nerburn

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Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master. ↗

— Miguel Ruiz

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You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work … You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success. ↗

— Chef Jiro

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery. ↗

— John Norman

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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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