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• Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Challenges, Inspire

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many - This in not prophecy, but description.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Country, Fate

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.590, Vintage

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• The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.

  Joel Garreau

  Animal, Law, Training

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• We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet 'as a whole.'

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Reality, Psychics

  "The Heart of Matter". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1950.

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• But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Peace, Fear, Moving

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• All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Liberty, Branches

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Fiction, Pieces, Waste

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• As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.

  Chelsea Manning

  Military, War, Unfinished Business

  "The Fog Machine of War" by Chelsea Manning, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2014.

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• The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, controlled by their actions and responses. Rather, he lives according to Christ's commands. This is Christian freedom. It is a freedom unknown by others. It is not just when others do the things that we like that we act properly toward them; we are free to do good even when they don't because our actions are not dependent on their responses. It is the Lord Christ when we serve!

  Jay E. Adams

  Christian, Doe, Our Actions

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• A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his search for light both metaphorical and real. Writing with a controlled lyrical passion, Marly Youmans has crafted the finest, and the truest period novel I've read in years.

  Lucius Shepard

  Real, Passion, Writing

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• When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is - The Fed has usurped the government!!

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Government, People, Effort

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• This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

  Jack White

  Airplane, Kids, Men

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• But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Marketing, Reaching, Familiar

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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• The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Police, Democracy

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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• Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Agency, Purpose, Assembly

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "The Value of Freedom". Chapter 7: "Majority Rules", 1960.

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• Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.

  George Michael

  Leather Jackets, Needs, Slides

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• I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Helping, Evolution

  Interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show", September 13, 2005.

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• In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.

  John Hume

  Fashion, Class, House

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• Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?

  Arundhati Roy

  Colonialism, Mutants, World

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.183, Haymarket Books

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• To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

  B. F. Skinner

  Variables, Way, Different

  B.F. Skinner (1969). “Contingencies of Reinforcement”

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• Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Media, Personality, United States

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• More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific know-how. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Technology, Impact, Political

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• We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us today as Black Leaders representing the welfare of Black people. We won't follow any leader today who comes on the basis of political party. Both parties (Democrat and Republican) are controlled by the same people who have abused our rights, and who have deceived us with false promises every time an election rolls around.

  Malcolm X

  Party, Rights, Deceived Us

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• And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

  Brian De Palma

  Corporations, Information, Source

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.186, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.

  Robert Mugabe

  Rights, Views, People

  Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2007.

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