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Control Quotes
"I had great control, I never missed hitting the other's fellow bat."
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"America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia."
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"We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live."
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"Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it."
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"If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide."
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"When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border."
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"It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more."
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"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."
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"The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal."
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"Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote."
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"I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me."
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"If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers."
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"By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire."
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"But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened."
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"Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano."
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"I know, it was a little bit out of control, but hey. It was all fun."
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"It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem."
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"Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death."
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"It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive."
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"My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist."
5
"After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will."
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"Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation."
5
"The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit."
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"The recent 'panic' to control greenhouse gas emissions and billions of dollars being dedicated for the task has me deeply concerned that US, and other countries are spending precious global funds to stop global warming, when it is primarily being driven by natural forcing mechanisms."
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"You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you."
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"Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame."
4
"Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm."
4
"No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns."
4
"By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too."
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"I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame."
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"The rule is that when one's mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person's mind in that subject."
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