The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
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What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
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A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.
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In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
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Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
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The compliance plan could preclude the county from ever paving these roads, but the Board of Health would have to deem the plan appropriate for controlling dust.
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Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.
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Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do it harm
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Keep controlling morality of others. Yours will be automatically taken care of.
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Gaining control of your thoughts is as easy as sitting by the ocean and controlling the waves.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites... Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
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The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men
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Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?
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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
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