“ The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation, which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is pardoned for sexual activity. ”
- Kate Millet- Copy
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“ Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
- 763
“ The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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“ The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation. ”
- Tom Naylor- Copy
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“ Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. ”
- Dr. Joyce Brothers- Copy
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“ Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation. ”
- Greil Marcus- Copy
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“ It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making. ”
- Alan Greenspan- Copy
- 890
“ When we say "science" we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect; or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water. He found that captive white-footed mice spent inordinate time and energy just resisting experimental manipulation. If the experimenters turned the lights up, the mouse spent his time turning them down… ”
- Martin E. P. Seligman- Copy
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“ For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent… It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions. ”
- Herbert Schiller- Copy
- 784
“ Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation. ”
- Greil Marcus- Copy
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“ For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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