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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.

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we w...

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Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

Religion is just mind control.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

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I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is...

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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...

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And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then th...

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The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a ...

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England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicte...

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As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example o...

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The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

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George SorosThe Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's beco...

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My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

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The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young...

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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Who is apt on occasion to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of w...

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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic con...

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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a we...

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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden be...

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What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master...

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Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and telev...

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Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dange...

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Howard ZinnA People's History of the United States

She bent her finger and straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividin...

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She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing...

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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies de...

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He feels the bleakness crawling into his skull; Franco breaths in steadily, trying to tune in all ou...

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You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you!

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhe...

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Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live...

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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the govern...

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In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: ...

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It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses ...

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James MadisonThe Federalist Papers

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, a...

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He was Control, and he was in control.

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in contro...

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There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days....

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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Do you know we are being led toSlaughters by placid admirals& that fat slow generals are gettingObsc...

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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in ...

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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something not th...

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My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief – all were weapons...

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In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, ha...

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I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant t...

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He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.

Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou ...

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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's bragga...

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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can n...

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any...

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John Stuart MillAuguste Comte And Positivism