Reactance theory does not address how harmful or innocuous control can be and may seem to be too circumscribed to explain the nature of general harmful behavior. However, the limitations of its scope to specific and reactive control motivation do not detract from its power to explain battles for control dynamics. It is formulated to anticipate these specific incidents and, in doing so, addresses harm in general. With this purpose and the applicability of reactance theory in mind, the terms control and specific control are used interchangeably and, because reactance is control motivation, the terms reactance and control motivation are also used interchangeably. A control model, subsuming these concepts and general control, is introduced next, in which control (unless identified by a general control descriptor) is the belief in the freedom to engage in a specific nonharmful or harmful behavior to reach a specific nonharmful or harmful goal that can be exercised for a variety of reasons, most particularly when threatened or taken away, arousing reactance in proportion to its distinctiveness and importance.
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The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
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Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
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Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge
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Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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Ephesians 4:7:
But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.
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Yet grace (God's unmerited favor) was given to each of us individually [not indiscriminately, but in different ways] in proportion to the measure of Christ's [rich and bounteous] gift.
(AMP)
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
(KJV)
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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