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Control Quotes
"Usury once in control will wreck the nation."
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"As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage."
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"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."
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"But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger."
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"It's nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control."
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"Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas."
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"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."
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"The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction."
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"Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control."
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"Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders."
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"Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control."
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"The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection."
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"Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates."
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"Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated."
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"What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control."
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"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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"We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be."
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"When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control."
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"I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact."
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"The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession."
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"I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has."
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"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders."
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"I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive."
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"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."
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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."
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"There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes."
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"But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance."
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"The rise of King Crimson was so fast that, to me, it felt as if it was going out of control. And it was going so fast that I couldn't keep up with what was happening."
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"We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control."
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"And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know."
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"Whatever is in your hands, you keep that in perfect condition; then what is beyond you will anyway happen. But people are always trying to work at what is beyond them, not taking care of what is in their hands."
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"As of now, I am in control here in the White House."
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"The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters."
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