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The church that emphasises on miracles are indirectly preaching that merit does not mater. — Sunday Adelaja

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. — Ulysses S. Grant

I can learn from the preachers of the past, and should; but I must not be a slavish imitator of them. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it. — Levon Helm

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway. — Octavia E. Butler

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind. — Mary Shelley

I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere. — Michael Phelps

Reading is the staff of life! — Roger Bonner

O imitators, you slavish herd! — Horace

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
[Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis
Que les imitateurs.] — Jean De La Fontaine

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. — Norton Juster

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace. — Kim Il-sung

Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

She needed someone to worship; he needed slavish devotion. They became inseparable companions. — Laura Joh Rowland

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy. — Robert Pinsky

Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law. — Charley Reese

It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web. — Tiffany Shlain

Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness. — Thomas Boston

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts. — Aristotle.

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. — John Milton

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious]. — William Penn

It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust. — Livia Blackburne

Slavish fear brings not back the backslider to God, but the sweet wooings of love allure him to Jesus' bosom. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. — M.M. Kaye

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it, — Jack Granatstein

I don't know how anyone can appreciate devotion that slavish. It's not objective. I have a similar issue with religion. — Max Barry

So many thinkers, so few doers. — Nabil N. Jamal