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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Cat, People

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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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• 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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• Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Victim, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I tell young girls, "The world is going to exploit and manipulate your sexuality. If you benefit from that financially, then you are part of the problem." That said, I thought all those parents flipping out over the Video Music Awards were ridiculous - women have been twerking in clubs for 20, 30 years. There's a real lack of awareness about what's going on across many layers of our culture.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Girl, Real, Awards

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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• Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.

  Stanley Fish

  Law, Numbers, Speech

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• The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

  Charles Stross

  Ideas, Yellow, People

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.164, Penguin

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• Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Feelings, Nuclear, World

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 148), 1991.

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• You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Order, Mind, Measurement

  Marie-Louise Von Franz (2001). “Psyche and Matter”, p.260, Shambhala Publications

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• I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .

  Peter J. Carroll

  Self, Magic, World

  "The Apophenion : A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

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• There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

  Randal Marlin

  Lying, Way, Language

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.106, Broadview Press

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• I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public; hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists? Artifacts only, please. Black artists? Something musical, maybe? And so forth.

  Alice Walker

  Art, Mean, Museums

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• He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

  Joan Didion

  Outsiders, Ability

  Joan Didion (1977). “A Book of Common Prayer”

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• There is a way to again be in real time with the universe,
  but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation.
  It is by finding your true Self.
  When you do, you will not need to manipulate life, it will simply flow.

  Mooji

  Life, Time, Real

  Mooji (2017). “White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji”, p.248, New Harbinger Publications

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• someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.

  Alice Miller

  Life, Change, Children

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.18, Macmillan

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• As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

  Peter Jackson

  Character, Needs, Scene

  "Peter Jackson Talks King Kong and Halo!". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. December 9, 2005.

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