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• There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.

  Stephen Hopkins

  Choices, Manipulation, Made

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• Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which your emotional and psychic existence can create varieties of physical form. You manipulate within the psychic environment, and these manipulations are then automatically impressed upon the physical mold.

  Seth

  Creativity, Exercise, Emotional

  Jane Roberts, Seth (1972). “Seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul”, Bookthrift Co

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• I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back... I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: "Have you considered going to drama school?" And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems.

  Tom Hardy

  Drama, Lying, Angel

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• That's the age that people are exploited, exploitable, and they're easily manipulated. The problem with me is, you can't manipulate me anymore. I've seen it, I know it, I've been there. And that's partially why, particularly in America, you see issues with artists as they get older. And they like to keep it a young man's game. Because that's how they can fudge around with the rules.

  Billy Corgan

  Artist, Men, Issues

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• Many who are making cellphone images are advocates with a stake in the outcome of what they are depicting. In some ways this makes their work more honest and easier to read - they can also manipulate, although the work of professionals can be quite manipulative as well.

  Fred Ritchin

  Outcomes, Way, Honest

  "Can Photojournalism Survive in the Instagram Era?". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2013.

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• A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

  Sol Stein

  Jobs, Skeletons, People

  Sol Stein (2005). “Other People”, p.168, iUniverse

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• There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate better as the instruments of oversight are more under your control. You don't have so many rogue operations.

  Ted Gup

  Rogues, Benefits, Levels

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

  Laszlo Bock

  Opportunity, Focus, Purpose

  Laszlo Bock (2015). “Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• Know that God has a plan for your life. Turn your life over to him every day. Stop looking outside yourself for validation and approval-you're letting other people define your happiness. Instead of trying so hard to manipulate life, take care of yourself on the inside. Then all those other attributes you're so desperately seeking will find you eventually.

  Trisha

  Validation, People, Trying

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• To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.

  Mark Leibovich

  Light, People, Psychology

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• The purpose of our journey on this precious Earth is now to align our personalities with our souls and the souls of others. It is to create harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. It is to grow spiritually. This is our new evolutionary pathway. The old pathway - pursuing the ability to manipulate and control - no longer works.

  Gary Zukav

  Journey, Personality, Soul

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• I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind.

  Sylvia Plath

  Believe, Intelligent, Mind

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• I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.

  Arca

  Breathing, Voice, Use

  "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.

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• Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

  Charlie Huston

  Thinking, Behaviour, Diplomacy

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• I killed your friends.” – Abigail “And I’m not happy about that. But your head wasn’t screwed on right. It’s easy to let the enemies in and listen to them sometimes, especially when they’re pretending to be your best friends who only want the best for you. At least that’s what they claim. They’re insidious bastards, telling you what you want to hear and using your emotions to manipulate you think doing their bidding.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Enemy, Bidding

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• Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.

  Deb Caletti

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

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• It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy-and that's a big "IF" - then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Law, Civilization

  "Borrowed Time". Interview with J.R. Minkel, www.scientificamerican.com. November 24, 2003.

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• Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

  Walter Lippmann

  Insecure, Successful, Men

  1955 The Public Philosophy, ch.2, sect.4.

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• I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Heart, Acting, Realization

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• Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through a bit of alchemy, transform them into delicious creations.

  Judith Jones

  Color, Smell, Raw Materials

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• Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

  Mooji

  Giving Up, Giving, Trying

  Mooji (2017). “White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji”, p.351, New Harbinger Publications

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• When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

  Hugh Prather

  Happiness, Home, Simple

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• Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Broken, Leaving

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• It should come as no surprise that Russia continues its effort to manipulate Western democracies in a way to sow discord and disagreements between our countries in NATO and within the United States or any other Western European country. And it's something the United States obviously must be on guard against.

  Tom Cotton

  Country, Effort, Democracy

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Attention, Levels

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