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Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.”

Men Writing Long Ideas Reflection Conviction Newspapers Magazines Controlled Articles

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.”

Machines Controlled

Author:Karim Rashid

“The past can be tamed and controlled.”

Past Controlled Tamed

Book:Italian Days

Source: Italian Days

“In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.”

Trying Humans War Hard Age Human Beings Controlled

Author:Jane Fonda

“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.”

Brain Worry Stupid Waste Evidence Ill Controlled Wasting Time Calisthenics

Author:Arnold Bennett

“The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a place of disembodiment where bodies are policed and enviolenced, a place that is apparently 'nowhere'.”

Body Space Internet Invisible Corporate Controlled Limitless Paradoxical

Author:Joyelle McSweeney

“If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.”

Ifs Persons God Destiny Infinite Controlled Bloody Farce

Book:An Oration on the Gods

Source: An Oration on the Gods

“Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.”

Way Long Steps Majors Phones Controlled Ethical Software Users Long Way Androids Long Way To Go

Author:Richard Stallman

“[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.”

Language Nations Church Blood Believer Controlled Divided Loyal Asia Eighty Philippines Dialect Fragmented Feuds

Book:Dogeaters: A Novel

Source: Dogeaters: A Novel

“night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.”

Self Night Games Strong Easy Sleep Golf Controlled Accurate Morrow Murmuring Supple Dashing

Book:What happened next

Source: What happened next

“In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate governments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.”

People Firsts Two Different Government America Rights Security Arise Controlled Republic Divided Portions Compounds

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“Testosterone should be a controlled substance.”

Men Should Substance Controlled Testosterone

Author:Lisa Scottoline

“Flying radio-controlled airplanes [is my guiltiest pleasure]. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. It's a fascinating hobby.”

Giving Able Focus Sky Give Me Radio Flying Fascinating Controlled Airplane Hobbies Only Time

Author:Tyler Perry

“We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.”

Way Book Country Faces Media Example Position Mass Presses Magazines Frightened Controlled Communist Other Countries Publish Freedom Of The Press Mass Media Kkk

Author:Pete Seeger

“We [comics] create our own reality on the show. I'm in a cocoon of the character's creation. Even within that reality, he's in a cocoon. While I'm an improviser and enjoy discovery, the show follows a script. I have a pretty good idea what's going to happen. It's a very crafted, controlled environment.”

Ideas Character Shows Reality Happens Enjoy Environment Creation Discovery Scripts Controlled Good Ideas Cocoons

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.”

Dream Happens Night Cities Streets Football Safe Basketball Summer Baseball Green Controlled Intimidation Unsafe Armageddon Safe Places Summer Nights

Author:Luke Salisbury

“I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'”

Men Behinds Fans Calm Controlled Anxious Blank Hitchcock Inscrutable

Author:Toby Jones

“I've got five months of aggression saved up, and I'll try and use that in a positive manner. I'll be aggressive, but in a controlled way.”

Way Trying Use Five Months Saved Controlled Aggressive Aggression

Author:Andre Nel

“[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!”

Men Body Breaths Dance Notes Iron Controlled Fragility

Book:First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky

Source: First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky

“Britney Spears can't hold a conversation. (mind controlled) The ultimate meltdown was Britney Spears. But she (Spears) can't hold a conversation. No. They have someone who feeds her what she is supposed to say. Like she can't hold a conversation.”

Mind Conversation Ultimate Controlled Mind Control Spears Meltdowns

Author:Adrienne Bailon

“A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.”

Divorce Controlled Explosions

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.”

Modern Historical Borders Empires Controlled Territory Protected Survived Provinces Armenians Armenia

Author:John Shimkus

“Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.”

Men Moral Responsible Agents Controlled

Book:Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God

Source: Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God

“If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.”

Ifs Humans Forever Conditions Insanity Controlled Prevailing Nineteen Ignorance In 1984 Human Equality

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!”

Thinking Firsts Home Might Accepting Dancing Passionate Ridiculous Controlled Auditions

Author:Chris Martin

“In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.”

Way Want Play Life Is Careers Controlled Schedules Cricket Cricketers

Author:Rahul Dravid

“We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.”

Humans Children Stills Age Modern Slave Israel Bridges Controlled Mentality Egypt Modern Age

Author:Bernard Werber

“If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.”

Ifs Way Humans Use Process Study Higher Aging Speed Controlled Organisms Worms Aging Process

Author:Cynthia Kenyon

“Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.”

Different Products Experiments Employee Controlled Unpredictable Susceptible

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.”

Support Claims Blind Experiments Nonsense Controlled Persistent Pseudoscience Sixth Sense Parapsychology

Book:Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber”

Ifs Thinking Stills Enough Easy Difficult Moral Crime Planets Drug Weak Addiction Alcohol Ruins Substance Controlled Acceptable Unfortunate Addict Stigma Fiber Alcohol Addiction Moral Fiber

Author:Brian Molko

“This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have I been doing all this time?' You see, that hits you like lightning. Once that hits you, the whole mechanism of the body that is controlled by this thought is shattered. What is left is the tremendous living organism with an intelligence of its own. What you are left with is the pulse, the beat and the throb of life.”

Self Whole Body Left Realizing Hell Beats Controlled Mechanism Lightning Organisms Pulse Shattered Living Organisms

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“The people of Earth are emerging from an amnesiac-like state of collective shock, which has blocked the influx of spiritual knowledge into the human gene pool. And while it is quite obvious to many that “You create your reality”, the vast majority of humans still need to be awakened from the unconsciously controlled trance of powerlessness that they voluntarily took on.”

Source: Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos

“Your connection to other people keeps you human, and that connection, staying human - that's what you have against control. It's like if somebody is being controlled by their job, the connection is to their family. And if they stay connected to those people, the job will never really have control over them.”

People Ifs Humans Jobs Connections Connected Staying Controlled

Author:Gerard Way

“Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.”

Needs Believe Looks May Doe Different I Believe Emotion Performances Performing Controlled Best Performance

Author:Mike Tyson

“The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.”

Self Brave Manners Indian Greek Gentleman Controlled Imposing Greek God

Book:Selected Prose

Source: Selected Prose

“Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.”

Years Children Has Beens School Boys Months Promise University Controlled Bob Considering Raising Children Harvard Eldest Harvard University

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“Where focus goes, energy flows. And where energy flows, whatever you're focusing on grows. In other words, your life is controlled by what you focus on. That's why you need to focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. When you next find yourself in a state of uncertainty, resist your fear. Shift your focus toward where you want to go and your actions will take you in that direction.”

Want Needs States Action Life Is Next Energy Grows Focus Flow Uncertainty Finding Yourself Controlled Energy Flow

Author:Tony Robbins

“It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended by the mention of God, prayer, or morality, yet over the federally controlled airwaves Christians can be offended every day of the week by the broadcasting of blasphemy against God and the Lord Jesus Christ or attacks on our moral values.”

Source: A Nation Without a Conscience

“Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.”

Government Environment Taxes Lows Debt Spending Controlled Texas Limited Government

Author:Mark McKinnon

“Whenever I've messed around with radio-controlled things, there's always been a part of me that's thought, I wonder if there might actually be a little guy piloting these vehicles.”

Ifs Littles Might Guy Wonder Radio Controlled Vehicle

Author:Ed Helms

“When you're attacking a router on the internet, and you're doing it remotely, it's like trying to shoot the moon with a rifle. Everything has to happen exactly right. Every single variable has to be controlled and precisely accounted for. And that's not possible to do when you have limited knowledge of the target you're attacking.”

Trying Happens Internet Moon Target Controlled Attacking Rifles Variables Limited Knowledge

Author:Edward Snowden

“Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.”

Law Individual Morality Taste Cost Controlled Individual Freedom

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.”

Ends Effort Scene Controlled Goth

Author:Kenny Hickey

“Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his brain? Why is my work notpaid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband? Why may he take my labor in the household, giving me in exchange what he deems fit? Why may he take my children from me? Will them away while yet unborn?" Let every woman ask.”

Men Giving May Children Said Body Asks Brain Fit Husband Equal Labor Slave My Children My Husband Controlled Household Unborn Male Dominance

Author:Voltairine de Cleyre

“Europe resolved a great problem-the problem of the Zionist danger. The Zionists, who constituted a strong political party in Europe, caused much disorder there. Since they had a lot of property and controlled an empire of propaganda, they made the European governments helpless.”

Made Problem Government Political Strong Party Danger Europe Property Propaganda Empires Controlled Disorder Helpless Political Parties Zionist

Author:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

“Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product.”

“Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.”

“Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.”

World Reason Whole Natural Possibility Fine Needed Whole World Manage Explanation Materialism Controlled Unlikely Natural World

Book:Why Evolution Is True

Source: Why Evolution Is True

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