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• Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

  David Crystal

  Kids, Research, Language

  "Gr8 db8r takes on linguistic luddites" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2008.

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• We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

  Jean Houston

  Artist, Player, Men

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• We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming and prevent catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now. We must not let the [Bush] Administration distort science and rewrite and manipulate scientific reports in other areas. We must not let it turn the Environmental Protection Agency into the Environmental Pollution Agency.

  Edward Kennedy

  Science, Wings, Agency

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• Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task." "Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Organization, People

  "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Book by Paulo Freire, Chapter 4, Organization, 1968.

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• Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Rich, Ability

  "Gingrich using the 'Language of the Left'?". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. January 10, 2012.

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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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• As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.

  C. Wright Mills

  Labor Force, People, Individual

  "White Collar: The American Middle Classes". Study by C. Wright Mills, 1951.

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• I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And we all live longer, better lives because of this dispassionate view. Sure, it commands awe and provides inspiration. Still, I would rather be operated on by a surgeon who sees me as an assemblage of atoms than one who lovingly tries to manipulate what he or she imagines are my vital energy fields.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Inspiration, Apology, Thinking

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• It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions.

  Hans Haacke

  Artist, Issues, Psychology

  Hans Haacke (2016). “Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke”, p.15, MIT Press

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• Our civilization is facing a radical, imminent mass change. The alternative to the hierarchical power structure is based on mutual aid and group consensus. As hackers we can learn these systems, manipulate these systems, and shut down these systems if we need to.

  Jeremy Hammond

  Civilization, Groups, Needs

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• The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

  Michael Gungor

  Successful, People, Trying

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• "You've experienced the way I can manipulate the emotions around myself, Bella, but I wonder if you realize how the feelings in a room affect me. I live every day in a climate of emotion. For the first century of my life, I lived in a world of bloodthirsty vengeance. Hate was my constant companion." - Jasper Hale

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hate, Feelings, Vampire

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Insecurity

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2012). “Heart Of The Soul: Emotional Awareness”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, neglecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control levers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to show the wrongness of the other person. The love, the richness, the softness and spontaneity begin to deteriorate.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Kindness, Eggs

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

  David Henrie

  Careers, Creative, Want

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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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