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• In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Struggle, Assets

  "Net Worth". www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2005.

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• My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

  Vera Wang

  Mother, Hippie, Flawless

  "The Vera Wang Interview: Made of Honor" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

  J. C. Watts

  Believe, White, House

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• Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

  Richard Dawkins

  Adults, Evolution, Program

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.

  Tom Robbins

  Military, Believe, Adventure

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

  William S. Burroughs

  Needs, Answers, Moderation

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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• All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Beautiful, Motivation, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise that faculty. Art, he said, was a controlled madness… He said books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.

  Steven Millhauser

  Dream, Art, Book

  FaceBook post by Steven Millhauser from Aug 19, 2015

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• My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Earth Day, World, Ruins

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• Well we've left behind the 200X's, and we move onto the 20XX's. Maybe that will finally make us feel like we're living in the future, rather than a media controlled slave state where an iPhone is worth substantially more than a human life. Happy new year.

  Yahtzee Croshaw

  New Year, Moving, Happy Life

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• Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  People, Worry, Feel Good

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Love Is, Men, Rights

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• But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?" "Yeah, I guess so,” I said, But it’s not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the capitol never intended to exist. They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.

  Suzanne Collins

  Brain, Songbirds, Weapons

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.92, Scholastic Inc.

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• I must admit I’m impressed, Sadie. You controlled your magic and controlled Isis. And you, Carter, did well turning into a lizard.

  Rick Riordan

  Isis, Magic, Lizards

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, Money, Powerful

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• Oh," she said, in a very different way. "Well. Thanks for my part in the compliment. Naturally I'd love to be watched and controlled, but I think I may be washing my hair that day.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Thinking, Hair, Different

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• ..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, People, Tests

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• Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pain, Cancer, Laughing

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.165, Grove Press

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• All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Men, Desire, Gunpowder

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• It is an old, old adage that if you want someone to do something, get them to believe it is their idea. Humanity is mind controlled and onlyslightly more conscious than your average zombie. Far fetched? No, no. I define mind control as the manipulation of someone's mind so that they think, and therefor act, the way you want them to.

  David Icke

  Believe, Thinking, Average

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.

  Iain Banks

  Rain, Water, Needs

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• Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Valentine, Passion

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.235, Tor Books

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• We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. The condition of the passive consumer of food is not a democratic condition. One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. (pg. 323, The Pleasures of Eating)

  Wendell Berry

  Voice, Mind, Remember

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Psychosis, Way

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “Valis”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is to be lived, not controlled.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life Is

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