Second, I consider myself still a student of subtraction, not a master of it.
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Bond is not only a master spy and seducer, he is also a style icon.
Ellington was not only a master composer and leader, but also a tireless talent-spotter.
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Directors should also put in more time: five or six days a year is not enough to master a labyrinthine balance-sheet.
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He has surveyed fields, framed houses, and assembled odd machines for obscure ends, but he does not count himself a master of any of these trades.
So people, a lot of times, if they want to eat chocolate-chip cookies or birthday cake, they have a recipe book that tells them how to do that, where they might not have a recipe book for the master cleanse diet, or for Ratatouille, for that matter.
It's not just his skills as a master musician that made him such an astute maestro but his common sense as an observer of people.
In Russia, this state of affairs need not be the result of a sinister master plan.
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He was a task master, and not always the best guy to work for.
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And the truth is, Master Chief is just not a strong lead, and never has been.
And why would I choose him as a Master of Money, not the other great free-market economist, Milton Friedman, who was almost certainly more influential?
But he's also careful to point out that Macaulay was racist, harboured prejudices about native Indians and customs and, despite being a linguist, did not attempt to master any Indian language.
Philippe Dufour stands high up in the watchmaking pantheon, not as a brand, but an independent master watchmaker--just himself, an assistant or two, and a few machine and hand tools that would be instantly recognizable to a watchmaker 200 years ago.
But although this was embarrassing, it was not calamitous: it was a muffled wail, as it were, that the master of Thornfield Hall could pretend not to hear.
By the way, Grantham is not the only money master who has taken a chilly view of stocks recently.
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XBox takes a hit with the launch of the iPad 2, a sign that Microsoft is not yet the master of online perception.
For those still set on that psychology degree, plan on getting a doctorate, because a master's alone is not going to add much juice to your earnings potential.
As he struggled through the Amazon on mules and boats, he reflected that Man was not master in the Tropics but instead a transient guest wise to enjoy the fruits that were offered.
"It seems spurious that a fresh master's graduate in their first job should qualify as a highly-skilled migrant where a businessperson of 25 years global experience earning hundreds of thousands of pounds without a master's degree does not, " said its chairman Keith Vaz.
He is known by colleagues as a rigorous task-master who does not suffer fools gladly.
When Jack Welch was running General Electric, he was a master at communicating his directives, not once, twice but many times.
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As for the Tories, it is far too soon to say whether young master Hague will or will not prove a good leader.
Misstatements on coaches' resumes have occurred occasionally over the years, perhaps the most infamous example being when George O'Leary resigned as Notre Dame football coach five days after he was hired in 2001 when it turned out his claim of earning a master's degree in education was not true.
Obama is a master at maneuvering and giving speeches, but not producing results.
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Beyond issues of cognition, not all Americans have the discipline and the drive to master a complex body of advanced subject matter.
"Of my friends who are not employed at the NIH, almost all of them have a master's degree, " says Laura Thomas, Ph.
Prof Johnston said the killer of Richard was probably not Sir Rhys himself, with the poem a praise of his master's leadership.
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In 1772 Lord Mansfield, a judge, ruled that a runaway slave there could not be forced back by his master to the West Indies.
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