"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."

Control, Disorder, Memories

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"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."

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"I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982."

Ryan Stiles, American Actor

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"What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"The statists want to control the economy."

Grover Norquist, American Politician

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"We don't do what we want to, we do what we are allowed to."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."

Wayne Dyer, American Psychologist

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"There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help."

Jan Schakowsky, American Politician

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"When parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

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"That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films."

Ted Demme, American Director

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"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."

Barbara Sher, American Businessman

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"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."

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"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."

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"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

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"Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life."

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"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving."

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"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present."

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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."

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