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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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• Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

  Karen Abbott

  Men, Two, Spy

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• What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Growing Up, Careers, Ideas

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• Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

  David Cronenberg

  Culture, Cinema, Want

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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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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• We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.

  Shakti Gawain

  Long, People, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.177, Mango Media Inc.

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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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• if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Business, Thinking, Personality

  Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

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• I think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I mean, they're just going to manipulate you in one way or the other, but there has to honesty at the core of it.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Art, Honesty

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If Putin decides to run, which we are assuming that he will, there really isn't anything that can stop him. He can manipulate the system so that he has not real opponents; he can manipulate the media so that nobody else gets any coverage. And then, if worse comes to worse, he can - as he has done in the past - just change the electoral results. So, it's not like it's going to be a very exciting election.

  Anne Applebaum

  Running, Real, Past

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public quite brilliantly.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Wonderful, Filmmaker

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

  will.i.am

  Ignorance, Rapper, People

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

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• Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

  George Will

  Government, Distribution Of Wealth, Bigs

  "George Will: Obama’s tardy epiphany about government’s flaws" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. December 11, 2013.

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• Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Young Unicorns”, p.202, Macmillan

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• Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Mean, Feelings, Trying

  "How Doing Nothing Can Help You Truly Live" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2010.

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• Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

  John Sununu

  Views, Political, Trying

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• It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

  Ludacris

  Cop, Crooked

  "Akon, Ludacris Say Rick Ross Should Brush Off Rumors Of Prison-Guard Past" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. August 4, 2008.

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