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"You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style."
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Personal Development

"You have no future when the past rules you."
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Personal Development

"The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country."
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Personal Development

"It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves.Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers [of the Seam] and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another."
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"I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?"
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Personal Development

"A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman."
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Personal Development

"Control of what happens is the ultimate solution to life."
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Personal Development

"Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering."
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"I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings."
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"In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
Cultural

"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
Freedom

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
Life

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
Work

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
History

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
Time

"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."
Man

"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."
Life

"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."
Truth

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
Religion
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