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• I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

  Keith Barry

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mind

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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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• 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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• I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards, and that a poem manipulates unpredictable depths with its words. . . . I like the tarot because it works like poetry and because you don't really have to 'believe in' anything. It's there to be used. The symbols are remarkably durable and beautiful; they float out to encompass all kinds of meanings.

  Alice Notley

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

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• Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Everything Happens For A Reason, Tools

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• It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

  B. F. Skinner

  Effort, Mind, Behaviour

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• A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the
  act of turning a page.

  John Maeda

  Book, Skills, Pieces

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• We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.

  Jared Diamond

  Stars, Ice, Design

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• You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.

  Krishna Das

  Heart, Circumstances

  Twitter post from May 03, 2016

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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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• 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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• 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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• The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

  Rebecca MacKinnon

  Technology, Government, Citizens

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• I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes

  Paula Danziger

  Kids, Technology, Years

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• Remember, character is not of much value. What is valuable is consciousness - not conscience but consciousness. Conscience is created by the society. The more foolish you are, the more the society is able to create a conscience in you. It gives you an idea how to live your life. It manipulates you in a very subtle way. It hypnotizes you and conditions you. And the conditioning is so long that you forget completely that these are not your ideas.

  Rajneesh

  Character, Ideas, Long

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• It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.

  Dwight Schultz

  Thank You, Memorial Day, Mean

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• There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.

  Peter Greenaway

  Sex, Two, Western Culture

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Emotional, People, Manipulation

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Nature, Keys, Sailing

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• He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

  Daniel Craig

  Empowering, Doe, Ability

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• Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

  Robert Wright

  Greatness, Territory, Information

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.377, Vintage

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• The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.

  Davis McCaughey

  Leadership, Business, Men

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• This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Real, Distance, Writing

  Mario Vargas Llosa (1991). “A Writer's Reality”, Mariner Books

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• Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Mean, Thinking

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• A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love

  Deepak Chopra

  Desire, Seducing, Persons

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