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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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• 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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• The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

  John Jay Chapman

  Music, Real, Men

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• We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but also by hearing, by feeling, by our sense of body motion and position. Our geometric and spatial skills are highly trainable, just as in other high-performance activities. In mathematics we can use the modules of our minds in flexible ways - even metaphorically. A whole-mind approach to mathematical thinking is vastly more effective than the common approach that manipulates only symbols.

  William Thurston

  Math, Thinking, Skills

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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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• Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

  David Anthony Durham

  Revenge, Emotion

  David Anthony Durham (2010). “Acacia”, p.72, Random House

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• There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

  Justin Sane

  Media, Issues, Care

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• Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

  Edmund Wilson

  Art, Appearance, Tricks

  Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”

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• Whats great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the characters - especially with Jason.

  Robert Englund

  Character, Jason, Stories

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• You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.

  Richard Avedon

  Real, Expression, Gestures

  "Avedon's Women" by Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 13, 2013.

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• The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

  John Stossel

  Government, Needs, Politician

  John Stossel (2012). “No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• True Leaders do not manipulate others they INSPIRE them.

  Myles Munroe

  Leader, Inspire, True Leader

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• People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

  Bob Goff

  People, Joy, Want

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2015

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• It is very difficult to know exactly what good should come out of a particular situation. To attempt to manipulate circumstances so your idea of good can come about, is to let the ego play God-and that, as you know, can and does backfire.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Play, Ideas, Ego

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• Successful democratic 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. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

  Walter Lippmann

  Successful, Insecure, Men

  "Essays in the Public Philosophy". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1955.

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• One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

  Jim Ryun

  Taken, Government, Land

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• Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

  Vivian Campbell

  Cutting, Technology, Doe

  "DEF LEPPARD Guitarist: Music Piracy Is Not A Bad Thing For Bands Like Us". Interview with Dana Feldman, www.blabbermouth.net. June 30, 201.

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• When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

  Julie Delpy

  Hands, People, Trying

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• Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.

  Jon Fishman

  Thinking, Media, Dancer

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• In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

  John Ensign

  Wall, Business, Vegas

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• I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Fate, Certainty In Life, I Realized

  Bethenny Frankel (2012). “Skinnydipping: A Novel”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• If you drain others energy a lot, you don't want to see this because you do it yourself; but remember, it's real easy to manipulate a manipulator.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Energy, Want

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• Whenever you take the time to inspire someone, to aid them in their inner search, you'll find energy will come back to you - unless you are ego tripping or you are trying to manipulate them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ego, Inspire

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• Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Competition, Opinion, Internet

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• How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? …How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.”? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it!

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Prayer, Men

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