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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.


Ezra Pound
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When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
John Webster
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I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore.
Naomi Watts
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Harriet Tubman
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Be not a slave of words.


Thomas Carlyle
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
E. F. Benson
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To this day, I'm a slave to CNBC.


David Zaslav
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All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.
Muhammad Ali
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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.


John Stuart Mill
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I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money.
George Osborne
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If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.


Wayne Dyer
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I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad.
John Legend
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I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.


Leif Garrett
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.


Abraham Lincoln
The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.
Hayden Fry
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In the early 1800s, both Spain and Portugal disseminated the smallpox vaccine throughout the Americas via the 'arm to arm of the blacks,' that is, enslaved Africans and African-Americans, often children, who were being moved along slave routes as cargo from one city to another to be sold.
Greg Grandin
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A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.


Lysander Spooner
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There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.


Nikki Giovanni
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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