"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."

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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."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Control, Power, Style, Emotions

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

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"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."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

Control, Country, Defense, Exercise

"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."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Control, Division, Misery, Power

"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?"

Michael Bolton, American Musician

Control, Hearing, Hell, Listening

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

Sol Wachtler, American Judge

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"I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

Control, Feelings, Effort, Emotion

"In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer."

Terry Southern, American Writer

Control, Difficulty, Film, Sense

"If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide."

Josef Albers, German Artist

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"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children."

George Orwell, British Author

Control, Children, Fear, Power

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"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."

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"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."

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"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."

Family

"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."

Nature

"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."

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"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

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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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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?"

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

"I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings."

"In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer."

"If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide."

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"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."

"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."

"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."

"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."

"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."

"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."

"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."

"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."

"The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear."

"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."