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• It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Ifs

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• If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Insanity, Nineteen

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.165, Arcturus Publishing

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• Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Different, Employee, Unpredictable

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• The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Support, Pseudoscience, Blind

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber

  Brian Molko

  Thinking, Moral Fiber, Addiction

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• This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have I been doing all this time?' You see, that hits you like lightning. Once that hits you, the whole mechanism of the body that is controlled by this thought is shattered. What is left is the tremendous living organism with an intelligence of its own. What you are left with is the pulse, the beat and the throb of life.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Self, Pulse, Lightning

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• I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Mean, Want, Corporations

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Your connection to other people keeps you human, and that connection, staying human - that's what you have against control. It's like if somebody is being controlled by their job, the connection is to their family. And if they stay connected to those people, the job will never really have control over them.

  Gerard Way

  Jobs, People, Connections

  "On Staying Human In A Killjoys World – Gerard Way In The Bleeding Cool Interview". Interview with Hannah Means Shannon, www.bleedingcool.com. May 9, 2014.

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• Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.

  Mike Tyson

  Believe, Doe, Different

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• The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Self, Brave, Greek

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerald Roberts (1980). “Selected prose”

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• Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, School, Boys

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.172, Library of America

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• Where focus goes, energy flows. And where energy flows, whatever you're focusing on grows. In other words, your life is controlled by what you focus on. That's why you need to focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. When you next find yourself in a state of uncertainty, resist your fear. Shift your focus toward where you want to go and your actions will take you in that direction.

  Tony Robbins

  Focus, Finding Yourself, Energy Flow

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• It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended by the mention of God, prayer, or morality, yet over the federally controlled airwaves Christians can be offended every day of the week by the broadcasting of blasphemy against God and the Lord Jesus Christ or attacks on our moral values.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1994). “A Nation Without a Conscience”

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• Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

  Mark McKinnon

  Government, Texas, Debt

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• Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  World, Materialism, Reason

  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution is True”, p.245, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My ambition for station was always easily controlled. If the place came to me it was welcome. But it never seemed to me worth seeking at the cost of self-respect, or independence. My family were not historic; they were well-to-do, did not hold or seek office. It was easy for me to be contented in private life. An honor was no honor to me, if obtained by my own seeking.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Ambition, Self, Office

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• Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.

  Luke Salisbury

  Basketball, Summer, Dream

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• We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Book, Media

  Source: portside.org

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• Flying radio-controlled airplanes [is my guiltiest pleasure]. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. It's a fascinating hobby.

  Tyler Perry

  Airplane, Sky, Giving

  Source: aalbc.com

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• There is a regulation of behavior on the Internet and in cyberspace, but that regulation is imposed primarily through code. The differences in the regulations effected through code distinguish different parts of the Internet and cyberspace. In some places, life is fairly free; in other places, it is more controlled. And the difference between these spaces is simply a difference in the architectures of control--that is, a difference in code.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Differences, Space, Different

  Lawrence Lessig (2008). “Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Animal, Expression, Ideas

  "Revised Historiography". "Liberty Bell" Magazine, April 1980.

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• Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

  Robert Gilpin

  Imperialism, Form, Critics

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.172, Princeton University Press

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• I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.

  Luis A. Ferre

  Military, People, Growth

  National Governors Association Annual Meeting NGA, 1971.

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• The U.S. is re-establishing relations with Cuba. But before President Obama can lift the embargo, it will need approval from the Republican-controlled Congress - or as Republicans who called Obama said, 'Close, but no cigar.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  President, Cuba, Needs

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• Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

  Paul Cezanne

  Heart, Painting

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