“ Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. ”
- Leo F. Buscaglia- Copy
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“ Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ I was playing a record company whore back in the days, a puppet. Everything was staged. I wasn't really designed to be this novelty act; I was turned into one. When I first came out, I was opening for Ice-T, EPMD, and Public Enemy. All of my audience was black. ”
- Vanilla Ice- Copy
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“ The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God… ”
- Joseph McCabe- Copy
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