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The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles from off the Earth.

Stanton T. Friedman

Earth, Evidence, Ufo

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Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

Jeff Cooper

Self, Long, Doe

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I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything

Kanye West

People, Perception, Taught

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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Xunzi

Nature, Kings, Men

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We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock.

Donella Meadows

Mistake, Thinking, Ecosystems

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Until your personality has exhausted its obsession with running the show, your soul isn’t given the space to express itself. Your personality can be threatened by your soul, because your personality has controlled your life for a long time and doesn’t want to give up control. Your personality is like a wild horse that tries to throw off the rider trying to tame it. The rider is your soul.

Corinne McLaughlin

Running, Horse, Giving Up

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It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.

Ashly Lorenzana

Men, World, May

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Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.

Rodney Stark

Long, Triumph, Arrogant

"For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery". Book by Rodney Stark, August 29, 2004.

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Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.

Elizabeth Noble

Love Is, Like Love, Energy

Elizabeth Noble (1983). “Childbirth with Insight”

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Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

Karl Marx

People

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Prayer frees us to be controlled by God. To pray is to change. There is no greater liberating force in the Christian life than prayer. To enter the gaze of the Holy is never to be the same. To bathe in the Light in quiet wonder and glad surrender is to be slowly, permanently transformed. There is a richer inward orientation, a deep hunger for communion. We feel as if we are being taken over by a new control Center, and so we are.

Richard J. Foster

Christian, Prayer, Taken

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In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.

David Jeremiah

Spiritual, Passion, Men

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Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far too controlled a setting. Besides, the camera liked to focus on individuals, and except for the single scull, crew was sport without faces.

David Halberstam

Sports, Focus, Cameras

David Halberstam (2012). “The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal”, p.26, Open Road Media

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If you’re controlled by your circumstances, life is going to be a roller coaster with ups and downs. God wants you to be stable, consistent, not moved by any of these things. When you face an adversity, when you hit a tough time, one of the best things you can do is simply stay calm. Keep your peace.

Joel Osteen

Adversity, Tough Times, Stay Calm

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There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.

Robert Anton Wilson

People, Would Be, Alive

"The Trick Top Hat". Book by Robert Anton Wilson within the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, 1979.

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The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.

Jerry Brown

Opportunity, People, Giving

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... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?

June Jordan

Heart, Careers, Community

June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books

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For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at least channelled into productive forms, but I doubt it. I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.

J. G. Ballard

Children, Moving, Technology

"JG Ballard: Theatre of Cruelty". Interview with Jean-Paul Coillard, 1998.

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The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a place of disembodiment where bodies are policed and enviolenced, a place that is apparently 'nowhere'.

Joyelle McSweeney

Space, Body, Internet

"'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.

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If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

Robert Green Ingersoll

God, Destiny, Farce

Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.33

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The tongue is more easily controlled than the features of the face; and though the heart may be secret, the face is transparent.

Helen Hunt

Heart, Secret, May

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Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

Richard Stallman

Phones, Long, Way

"Is Android really free software?" by Richard Stallman, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

Country, Today, Imperialism

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[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.

Jessica Hagedorn

Blood, Church, Loyal

Jessica Hagedorn (2013). “Dogeaters: A Novel”, p.132, Open Road Media

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night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.

Ethel Smyth

Strong, Sleep, Golf

Ethel Smyth (1940). “What happened next”, Longmans, Green

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