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• For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

  Susan Sontag

  Death, Religious, Dying

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Jill Scott: 'In Botswana I ate wopani worms. They were terrible. They crawl and have legs'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, was once described by Condoleezza Rice as 'the last outpost of tyranny in Europe.'

  Evgeny Morozov

  Country, Europe, President

  "How dictators watch us on the web" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. December 10, 2009.

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• The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Moving, People, Interesting

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• New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Self, Google

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• I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

  Euan Uglow

  Art, Ideas, Trying

  Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.38, Yale University Press

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• The effects of color are controlled by intuition.

  Johannes Itten

  Color, Intuition, Effects

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• In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the other side of the story - the side that reflects poorly on the government - somehow gets lost.

  Richard J. Maybury

  War, School, Government

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• Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America.

  Tom L. Johnson

  School, Government, America

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• Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Science, Scientific Method, Accounts

  Rudolf Carnap (2013). “The Unity of Science”, p.24, Routledge

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• The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Art, Science, Events

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1872). “The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle”, p.4

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• Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted and controlled. Radiation is dangerous, let there be no mistake about that-but the modern world abounds in dangerous substances and situations too numerous to mention. ... Consider radiation as something to be treated with respect, avoided when practicable, and accepted when inevitable.

  Ralph Lapp

  Hate, Mistake, Long

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• Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Cute, Hurt, Party

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.164, Macmillan

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• The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

  Carson McCullers

  Thinking, Imagination, Mind

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

  Stanley Milgram

  Perception, Puppets, May

  "The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India". Book by V. R. Krishna Iyer, 1979.

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• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Nwo

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• A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Names, Long

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• That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.

  Tom Robbins

  Organization, Creative, Brain

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• Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Glowing, Hot And Cold

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• What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

  Robert Conquest

  Hilarious, Organization, Secret

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• News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

  Jessica Savitch

  Events, News, Literature

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Truth, Science

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• More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Running, Men, Goes On

  Commonwealth Club Address, delivered 23 Sept 1932, San Francisco, CA

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• I think that everyone's life is controlled by a series of events. They choose what they want and if it is in their control they can reach it. Sometimes luck shines on them and sometimes it doesn't. I also think accidents happen and we are placed in situations where we have to do things for those we love that we don't want to do.

  Abbi Glines

  Thinking, Shine On, Shining

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Simple Perfection: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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