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• If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

  Rob Bell

  Loving Someone, Desire, Serious

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.70, Harper Collins

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• That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

  Gene Siskel

  Movie, Giving, Trying

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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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• 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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• I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find ourselves. There is a spiritual war mode that we must appropriate. It is an aggressive stance that we take against evil. It is governed by love for people, but it is fearless and uncompromising with the powers of darkness that manipulate people to fulfill evil plans.

  Francis Frangipane

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real or fabricated needs, nature remains opaque, and does not reveal to us its true being.

  Henri Nouwen

  Nature, Real, Ocean

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.86, Image

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• We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Growing Up, Learning

  Joseph Chilton Pearce (1980). “Magical child: rediscovering nature's plan for our children”

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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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• The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

  Leo Ornstein

  Differences, Manipulation, Students

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• If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

  Pele

  Inspirational, People, Giving

  "And God created Pele" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. Jun 29, 2003.

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• No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

  Paulo Coelho

  Party, Complaining, Used

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• There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

  Simon Sinek

  Two, Inspire, Way

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.19, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.

  Aaliyah

  Strong, Business, Real

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• That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops... and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything.

  Artie Shaw

  Sex, Keys, Trying

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• When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness.

  Marci Shimoff

  Positive, Happiness, Happy

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.

  Bill Budge

  Writing, Hands, Track

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• Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.

  Robert D. Hare

  Opportunity, Views, Psychology

  Robert D. Hare (2011). “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us”, p.174, Guilford Press

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• The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but they’re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch.

  Chris Hedges

  Reality, Media, Sick

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• A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

  Beth Moore

  Differences, Giving, Trying

  Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.29, B&H Publishing Group

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• Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.

  Barry Goldwater

  Money, Freedom, Real

  "With No Apologies". Book by Barry Goldwater, p. 282, 1979.

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• It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.

  John Powell

  Love Is, Giving, Self Love

  John Powell (1989). “Through Seasons of the Heart”, Thomas More Association

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• True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

  Philip Yancey

  Doe, Position, True Faith

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

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• Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.

  Susan Forward

  Children, Parent, Risk

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