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Ambition old as mankind the immemorial weakness of the strong.

How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There ...

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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own...

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This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...

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William Barrett (philosopher)Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the f...

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I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressur...

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William S. BurroughsThe Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

Fortunately, we are not in control.

Freedom is control in your own life.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

I question the more or less psychoanalytic perspective that the male need to control women sexually ...

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Adrienne RichCompulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's bo...

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Adrienne RichOf Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surren...

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Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yoursel...

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So it came to this, that— against the grain, no doubt—the condemned man had to hope the apparatus wa...

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk...

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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately as...

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Aldous HuxleyBrave New World / Brave New World Revisited

So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled me...

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Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...

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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...

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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive tast...

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Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realitie...

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We kept our heads down and did our jobs. We controlled the only thing we could, which was the show. ...

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Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

Sweet words are like honey a little may refresh but too much gluts the stomach.

I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and i...

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I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a...

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To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right t...

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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies the hardest victory ...

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What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.

without the power to concentrate thatis to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task a...

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Arnold BennettHow to Live on 24 Hours a Day

That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For ...

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It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has its...

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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand a...

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There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even underst...

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I listen and give input only if somebody asks.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news sh...

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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and conn...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon b...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider reli...

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If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

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Bill WattersonThe Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

Progress is learning to control your world.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

We may feel in control, but we never truly are unless we understand people. Controlling our environm...

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Brandon SandersonThe Emperor's Soul

You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you...

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Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything...

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He explained that unlike our other classes in the program, research was all about prediction and con...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize y...

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength ...

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The more you try to crush your nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who rea...

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He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.I have a schedule p...

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Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipp...

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We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...

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Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to ...

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The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a wor...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in contr...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything...

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We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces imp...

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The fundamental metaphor of National Socialism as it related to the world around it was the garden, ...

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...knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstance...

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Diana GabaldonWritten in My Own Heart's Blood

Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound...

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The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almo...

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That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the...

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We don't like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people s...

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Donna TarttThe Secret History

And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside o...

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Only you can control your future.

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that wa...

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Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and d...

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Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes y...

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This is what we are like. Collectively, as a species, this is our emotional landscape. I met an old ...

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I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my bodyand life and money and e...

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There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve o...

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Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of ...

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It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them in fact the family...

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

I didn't hit other people or hit purposefully, I just hit. Some object would be at fault. My anger w...

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If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thought...

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Love understands love it needs no talk.

What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal an...

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I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness....

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All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse w...

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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become ...

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It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.