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• One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find our own place. The story confronts but does not oppress; the story inspires but does not manipulate. The story invites us to an encounter, a dialogue, a mutual sharing. As long as we have stories to tell to each other there is hope. As long as we can remind each other of the lives of men and women in whom the love of God becomes manifest, there is reason to move forward to new land in which new stories are hidden.

  Henri Nouwen

  Moving, Men, Land

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• I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

  Randy Harrison

  Careers, Trying, Manipulation

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• You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expect it to be manipulated against you. You cannot have your news for free; you can only obscure the costs. If as a culture we can learn this lesson, and if we can learn to love the hard work, we will save ourselves much trouble and collateral damage. We must remember: There is no easy way.

  Ryan Holiday

  Hard Work, Character, Culture

  Ryan Holiday (2012). “Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator”, p.201, Penguin

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• In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, Collins, Dupont, Warner, Russell, the world's monarchies, the Vatican. But also prayed upon by these family's employees, by governments, by the military, by banking institutions, by academia. So who does that leave? That's all the people who aren't wealthy, aren't connected, aren't educated, who are easy to manipulate, are easy to persecute and who don't believe any of the issues which you cover on Red Ice. And that's a problem. And that breaks my heart.

  Sean Young

  Military, Believe, Heart

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• Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Moving, Mutual Benefit

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• In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Daughter, Mother, Home

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• You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Believe, Teaching

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• I think that natural beauty is very charismatic... I just believe in enhancing who we are rather than trying to manipulate or change it too much.

  Elle Macpherson

  Believe, Love You, Thinking

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• It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

  Louise Erdrich

  Writing, Trying, Crude

  "Cross-dressing the Divine". Interview by Josie Rawson, www.motherjones.com. June 2001.

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• In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Communication, Personality, Support

  "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, 1970.

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• There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.

  Erich Fromm

  Differences, People

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Fear is like fire. You can make it work for you: it can warm you in the winter, cook your food when you're hungry, give you light when you are in the dark, and produce energy. Let it go out of control and it can hurt you, even kill you... Fear is a friend of exceptional people... You must understand fear so you can manipulate it.

  Cus D'Amato

  Sports, Hurt, Winter

  "Teddy Atlas' powerful motivation speech - A Song of Fear and Fire" by Carlos Alejandrino, www.mixedmartialarts.com. February 09, 2017.

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• The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

  Bruce Sterling

  Ignorance, Data, Literature

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• It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.

  Lars von Trier

  Giving, Video, Problem

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• No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Technology, Next, Use

  "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970.

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• Guys are stimulated easily. They are easy to manipulate. All you have to do is wear a sexy outfit.

  Jessica Alba

  Sexy, Guy, Easy

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• The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

  Jean Cocteau

  People, Use, Language

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• Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Appreciation, Communication, Expression

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• I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Believe, Writing

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• Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behavior and intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mean, People, Temptation

  "Between two ages". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970.

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• Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.

  Carroll Quigley

  Country, Government, Bankers

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• I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

  Joey Skaggs

  Issues, Attention, Passionate

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• Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

  Laura Davies

  Children, Pain, Hate

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• Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Children, Husband, Real

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• Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

  Richard Foreman

  Age, Trying, Sentimental

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