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• Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.

  Toni Morrison

  Clever, Winter, Cities

  Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, People, Opinion

  Twitter post from Apr 12, 2011

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• After that, we had a short conversation about how your body can sometimes seem totally separate. She said her body can feel like a distant bureaucracy controlled by telegrams from her brain, and I said my body is sometimes like that of Mario Mario, being controlled with a Nintendo joypad. Mario's surname is Mario.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Brain, Nintendo, Body

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• It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what you were going to do." He kissed her again, a warm, damp touch of lips, exquisitely controlled. "But it doesn't matter whether you stay or go. I'll still need you. So if you want to go off to Boston, Ill wait. Right here, whenever you need me.

  Rachel Caine

  Boston, Talking, Touching You

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.243, Allison & Busby

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• Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Children, Self, Joy

  Luke Rhinehart (1998). “Dice Man”, p.65, The Overlook Press

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• Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

  Octavia Butler

  Liars, Lying, Tyrants

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.226, Open Road Media

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• I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.

  Sebastian Barry

  Pain, Thoughts In Your Head, Fronts

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• That's because I've learned how to use it [smile], Woserit said. I don't pass it out like an old woman giving free milk to the village cats. It's something that must be controlled, and for you especially. You use it on anyone. You must learn to be more judicious.

  Michelle Moran

  Cat, Giving, Use

  Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.603, Broadway Books

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• All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.

  Dean Koontz

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

  Dean Koontz (2010). “What the Night Knows (with bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun): A Novel”, p.70, Bantam

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• Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.

  Lauren Oliver

  Animal, Unhappy, Erratic

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.

  Pittacus Lore

  Inspirational, Life, Regret

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• Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.

  Deb Caletti

  Loss, Thinking, Safe

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

  James A. Baldwin

  Way, Facts, Force

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• Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this year? Yet social scientists are asked to answer analogous questions. We economists and perhaps psychologists shouldn't overreact to the derision. That is, we shouldn't try to overlay a false sense of precision on our admittedly squooshy work.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Girl, Baby, Years

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Century. They had built institutions filled with lawyers and scientists well suited to lobby policy makers who basically shared their world view. This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Government, Views, Years

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male dominance and "holy wars" are priorities. Or that competing sects of the same religion, such as Sunni and Shia, are at each other's throats. In these cultures, women are rigidly controlled by men.

  Riane Eisler

  Christian, Religious, War

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Beautiful, Winter, Perfect

  Source: fpmt.org

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• For years, the Democrats have controlled the inner cities; some up to 100 years; some over 100 years; unbroken. I say to the African American community and to the Hispanic community: What the hell do you have to lose? I will fix it. We will make them good. We'll make them safe. We'll bring back jobs. We'll create good, good schools and education.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, School, Years

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same as the capitalist welfare states that have existed in some European countries.

  Kshama Sawant

  Country, Different, World

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• There are very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities they would cheat as much as Democrats.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Cities, Way, Republican

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Thinking, Panic, Scared

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.

  Jared Diamond

  Acquisition, World, Body

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.26, Penguin

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• That's why we call for a New Deal prototype. Which means we are creating the jobs - nationally funded program but locally controlled - with guidelines to achieve 100% clean renewable energy through wind, water and sun by 2030. Also to create a sustainable food system, since this is a major portion of climate emissions, and also calling for public transportation as well as infrastructure restoration including in that ecosystem restoration.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Mean, Wind

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I have the unique liberty as part of the Green Party that operates on the same terms. We have the ability to actually speak for everyday Americans. We are not controlled by major donors, by the influence of big banks, by fossil fuel giants, by war profiteers or insurance companies.

  Jill Stein

  War, Party, Unique

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text.

  George Saunders

  Fiction, Dull, Produce

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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