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Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.
Gao Xingjian / Novelist
Literature
Subservient
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi / Civil Rights Leader
Love
Peace
Heart
Subservient
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Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.
Gao Xingjian / Novelist
Truth
Refuse
Subservient
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I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.
Nic Pizzolatto / Novelist
Hollywood
Subservient
Vision
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I'm very good at pretending to be subservient; I'm really good at it.
Keith Allen / Actor
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I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.
Leven Rambin / Film Actress
Girl
Men
Flower
Subservient
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Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
Xenocrates / Philosopher
Excellence
Possession
Subservient
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Over the years, I've consciously not done films that in any way suggest that women are subservient to men.
Shabana Azmi /
Subservient
Women Men Way
Suggest
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I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.
Charles Mingus / Bassist
People
Revolutionary
Subservient
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Felix Adler / Professor
Purity
Subservient
Maintain
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I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.
Neko Case / Singer-Songwriter
Calm
Subservient
Brings
Dig
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Follow your heart, and don't be subservient to anyone. Shut out the world, and only listen to your heart to fulfill your dreams.
Dutee Chand /
Follow Your Heart
Heart
Subservient
Your Dreams
Anyone
Listen
Follow
Fulfill
Dreams World Your Dreams
Shut
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Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.
Janine Di Giovanni / Author
Educated
Priests
Small Child
Subservient
Brothers
Nuns
Wondered
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There's nothing wrong with being help. But it's very wrong that we presume people of colour are in a subservient position. That's problematic.
Mellody Hobson / Businesswoman
Colour
Position
Subservient
Wrong
Help
Presume
Problematic
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The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.
Nassau William Senior / Economist
Improvement
Obstacles
Political Economy
Principal
Subservient
Sciences
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Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.
Stephen Kinzer / Author
Castro
Figures
Revolutionary
Subservient
Truth Is
Life Truth Always
Life Truth Political
Entire Life
Malleable
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However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
Wilhelm Dilthey / Psychologist
Metaphysics
Relation
Subservient
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
Sciences
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You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too.
Medgar Evers / Activist
Education
Black
Educated
Poor
Subservient
Too
Designed
Discover
Exploited
Gets
Him
Whites
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
Isaac Newton / Physicist
Experiments
Subservient
Assumed
Determining
Furnish
Hypotheses
Properties
Unless
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Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Thomas Sowell / Economist
Color
Ethnicity
Gender
Green
Race
Subservient
Within
Considered
Cannot
Else
Hence
Necessarily
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Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.
Pete Rozelle /
Looks
Owners
Player
Subservient
Commissioner
Fair
Shake
Therefore
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All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
John Stuart Mill / Philosopher
Action
Character
Color
Natural
Sake
Seems
Subservient
Whole
Rules
Suppose
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Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
Tori Amos / Singer-Songwriter
Another Woman
Believe
Feminism
Order
Powerful
Subservient
Advocate
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All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.
Ava Duvernay / Filmmaker
Diverse
Loud
Sassy
Subservient
Complex
In Fact
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Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward.
David Oyelowo / Actor
Driving
Narrative
Subservient
Celebrated
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The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.
Ellen Key / Writer
Dominion
Form
Married
Our Time
Slavery
Subservient
Worst
Time Family Always
Time Family Man
Beside
Created
Family Time Man
However
Married Woman
Provider
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In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the church of their owners, listen to selective dogma that kept them obedient and subservient.
Sue Monk Kidd / Writer
Church
Dogma
Obedient
Owners
Selective
Slavery
Subservient
Attend
Forced
Slaves
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
Elisha Gray / Inventor
Law
May
Operations
Paradox
Rule Of Law
Speak
Subservient
Wonderful
Wonderful Things
Claim
Finding
Lies
Miracles
Point
Rule
Title
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
Valerie June / Singer-Songwriter
Guides
Subservient
Boss I Am Me
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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
Steven Biko / Activist
Black
Blackness
Committed
Describing
Emancipation
Fighting
Subservient
Use
Started
Against
Fight Yourself Your
Fight
Forces
Towards
Seek
Marks
Merely
Road
Stamp
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All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
Andrew Fletcher /
Advice
Court
Crowns
England
Filled
Ministers
Principal
Subservient
Affairs
Offices
Union
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Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
J. G. Ballard / Novelist
Future
Brave
Brave New World
Contrast
Huxley
Leap
Marxism
Might
New World
Quantum
Quantum Leap
Subservient
Tyranny
Future World Me
Away
Orwell
Rightly
Suggested
Systems
Totalitarian
Wrongly
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I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.
Rebecca De Mornay / Film Actress
Men
Balanced
Disturbance
Feminine
Law
Masculine
Men And Women
Natural
Painful
Subservient
Thousand
Thousand Years
Years
God Men Women
God Women Men
Holding
Wiped
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The police force has repeatedly demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to carry out its fundamental mandate: to serve and protect the people of Hong Kong. It has been reduced to a mere instrument of repression subservient to the political agenda of Beijing's regime in Hong Kong.
Joshua Wong /
Beijing
Hong Kong
Inability
Mere
Police Force
Repression
Subservient
Agenda
Instrument
Mandate
Reduced
Regime
Repeatedly
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I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.
Sebastian Thrun / Educator
Technology
Belief
Entity
Faster
Numbers
People
Subservient
Technology Better People
Big Fan
Empower
Stays
Technologies
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Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.
Madhuri Dixit / Film Actress
Men
Empowered
Grassroots
Mindset
Moving
Respectful
Subservient
Together
Towards
Slowly
Same Time
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The average American husband has relinquished his responsibility as head of his household. Though the wife is partly at fault, he is mostly to blame. I'm not suggesting that women should return to the subservient position before their emancipation when they were virtually slaves of their husbands. But freedom for women can be overdone.
Lorne Greene /
Blame
Emancipation
Household
Subservient
Suggesting
Average American
Husbands
Overdone
Partly
Relinquished
Slaves
Virtually
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