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• As far as feminism is concerned be the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril. And I am not exaggerating. The modern era of feminism has done such great damage.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dirty, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, Way, Rooms

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• No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

  Sigmund Freud

  Struggle, Evil, Half

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: case of hysteria, Three essays on sexuality, and other works”

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• A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.

  Toni Bentley

  Shoes, Ballet, Enemy

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• Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.

  Susan Sontag

  Nature, Gun, People

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.16, Macmillan

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• All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.

  Jay Griffiths

  Hate, Light, Shining

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• Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

  Anthony Head

  Country, Wonderful, Farming

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?

  Katy Perry

  Trying, Phases, Coming Out

  "Katy Perry gets deep about Teenage dream" by James Mongomery, www.mtv.com. July 26, 2010.

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• When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he had lost what made him so beautiful and free....One out of every three mustangs captured in south west Texas was expected to die before they were tamed. The process often broke the spirits of the other two.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Beautiful, Horse, Fall

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• The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.

  Charles James

  Country, Kindness, Way

  "Queen Victoria's Little Wars". Book by Byron Farwell, p. 27-31, 1972.

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• Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Simple, Desire

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• all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.

  Stevie Smith

  Animal, Our Love, Able

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• A named thing is a tamed thing.

  Joanne Harris

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• Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

  Patricia Moyes

  Sea, Hints, Far Away

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• Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, Men, Broken

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.66, David M Gross

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• The past can be tamed and controlled.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Past, Controlled

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.171, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its resources to the betterment of those who dwell in it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, Responsibility, Men

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• When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Artist, Culture, Genius

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• We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Europe, Germany, Needs

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• The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, Enemy, Savages

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• There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are of the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of an athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy.

  Guy Davenport

  Horse, Athlete, Pride

  "Eclogues: Eight Stories".

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• I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Running, Risk, Foxes

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• Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

  Jean Rostand

  Freedom, Science, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reflection, Glasses, Heaven

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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