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• Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

  Pope Paul VI

  Change, Men, Technology

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• Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

  Christopher Lasch

  Issues, Purpose, Manipulation

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• There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

  Neville Marriner

  Sound, Singers, Manipulation

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• I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

  Mos Def

  Running, Writing, Ambition

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• I've never tried to manipulate my image.

  Alan Alda

  Manipulation

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• Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Trying, Manipulation, Working Man

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

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• But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Freedom, Men, Essence

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• Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Reality, Desire, Situation

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• If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

  William Martin

  Children, Humility, Bully

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• The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

  John Smith

  Men, Thinking, Way

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• The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.

  Sue Grafton

  Pieces, Paper, Liquid

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• Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes, so does our theology change, particularly if we are trying to manipulate language for a specific purpose. That is what is happening with our attempts at inclusive language, which thus far have been inconclusive and unsuccessful.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Latin, Trying, Doe

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• I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

  Guy Davenport

  Puppets, Strings, Stage

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• You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Promise, Want, Nonsense

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• Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Giving Up, Real, Thinking

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, James M. Edie (1964). “The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics”, p.159, Northwestern University Press

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• Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.

  Craig Thompson

  Dream, Reality, Giving

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• I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.

  Muriel Barbery

  Foundation, Belief, Ability

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

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• Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

  William P. Young

  Running, Lying, Trying

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• You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Humility, Pride

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• Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worse, It's a tool used to manipulate and ruin any one who is stupid enough to hold it. Don't be stupid.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Stupid, Love Is, Sublime

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• As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

  Bill Watterson

  Congratulations, Long, Forever

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

  Charles R. Swindoll (2004). “Improving Your Serve”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It's the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof.

  Jo Nesbo

  Burden Of Proof, Common Sense, Heaven

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• Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

  Janet Morris

  Tools, Belief, Morality

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.62, Paradise Publishing

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• I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Names, Mind, Four Agreements

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