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Theodor Adorno

"Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated."

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Donna Grant

"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."

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Donna Grant

"Through all life changes , God is in control."

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"A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him."

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Donna Grant

"We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh."

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Donna Grant

"Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!"

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Donna Grant

"Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul."

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Donna Grant

"You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion."

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Donna Grant

"Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434)."

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