“ Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
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“ They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ After a lengthy review of the trial transcript, appellate court rulings, and clemency proceedings, I see no evidence of innocence. ”
- Rick Perry- Copy
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“ A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved — commitment to a scenario. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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“ Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. ”
- Gerald Priestland- Copy
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“ We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. ”
- Vicente Fox- Copy
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“ Ambassador (L. Paul) Bremer has suggested some timelines, and we'll wait and see what the resolution says and how the Governing Council responds to the invitation that will be in the resolution. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
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“ Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple. ”
- Bill Shankly- Copy
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“ Yet looks he like a king. Behold, his eye, As bright as is the eagle's lightens forth Controlling majesty. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ This oil-price shock differs significantly from earlier episodes, leading me to believe that the economy will be able to adapt to the new pricing environment without a major economic slowdown. ”
- James Hamilton- Copy
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“ He often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love. ”
- Theodor Reik- Copy
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“ I believe it is fair to say most Republicans did not think George W. Bush was motivated to run for the presidency for the primary reason of cutting or controlling spending. But it is also fair to say that they did not think he was Lyndon B. Johnson. And that's what he's turned into. ”
- Peggy Noonan- Copy
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“ I have reminded him (Major) that there are some positive as well as some negative elements in the Dayton agreement and that lately, these negative elements are more and more prevailing. That is creating a fear among our people — a fear that that might lead to the disintegration of the country. ”
- Alija Izetbegović- Copy
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“ I don't think that anybody has any patience left for the way the PLO has conducted itself,... We know now, because of the arms shipment, that there is a close association between all of that violence and what is happening within the ranks... and the leadership of the PLO. ”
- Tom Daschle- Copy
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“ American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. ”
- Harold Rosenberg- Copy
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“ Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts. ”
- Earl Nightingale- Copy
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“ Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few. ”
- Carlos P. Romulo- Copy
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“ It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner. ”
- Beryl Bainbridge- Copy
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“ The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. ”
- Mao Tse Tung- Copy
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